Paula Cole famous quotes

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
-- Paula Cole

#Girl #Feminist #Bethlehem

The monsters are in your own head
-- Paula Cole

#Monsters

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
-- Paula Cole

#Pain #Anger #Humble

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
-- Paula Cole

#Flower #Proud #Sun

Just watching my cats can make me happy.
-- Paula Cole

#Cat #Make Me Happy

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
-- Paula Cole

#Thinking #Everyday #Important

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.
-- Paula Cole

#Self Confidence #Enemy #Monsters

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.
-- Paula Cole

#Men #Australia #Gabriel

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.
-- Paula Cole

#New York #Tvs #Crosswords

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.
-- Paula Cole

#Men #Laughing #Cooking

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.
-- Paula Cole

#Laughing #Looks #Legs

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
-- Paula Cole

#Albums #Diaries

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.
-- Paula Cole

#Stars #Eye #Rose

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.
-- Paula Cole

#Thinking #Giving #Family Reunion

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
-- Paula Cole

#Ocean #Wings #Age

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.
-- Paula Cole

#Challenges #Way #Naked

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
-- Paula Cole

#Cities #Big Cities #Accepting

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.
-- Paula Cole

#Religious #Religion #Tiny

Welcome to the church of me.
-- Paula Cole

#Church #Welcome #Egotism

Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.
-- Paula Cole

#Brother #Reality #Everyday

You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.
-- Paula Cole

#Apples #Horny #Red

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.
-- Paula Cole

#Pain #World #Saturn

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.
-- Paula Cole

#Age #Want #Fans

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.
-- Paula Cole

#Couple #Too Much #Facts

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.
-- Paula Cole

#Eye #Steps

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.
-- Paula Cole

#Ordinary #Holy #Mary

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come
-- Paula Cole

#Believe #Artist #Female

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
-- Paula Cole

#Beautiful #Girl #Song

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.
-- Paula Cole

#Music #Destiny #Rivers

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
-- Paula Cole

#Mother #Daughter #Grandparent

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
-- Paula Cole

#Mother #Daughter #Years

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .
-- Paula Cole

#Inspirational #Song #Car

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
-- Paula Cole

#Plato #Thinking #Self

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair
-- Paula Cole

#Hair #Feminist #Armpits

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively
-- Paula Cole

#Art #Pieces #Made

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success
-- Paula Cole

#Adversity #Accepting #Used

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground
-- Paula Cole

#Darkness #Zenith #Middle

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
-- Paula Cole

#Awards #Artistic

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.
-- Paula Cole

#Truth

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.
-- Paula Cole

#Music #Thank God #Emotion

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
-- Paula Cole

#Successful #Want #Plebeians

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
-- Paula Cole

#Introvert #Process #Internals

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
-- Paula Cole

#Song #Memories #Teenage

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
-- Paula Cole

#Frustrated #Answers #Way