Words matter. These are the best Paula Cole Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud.
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.
Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
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.
I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
I’m raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I find that 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 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.
I’m used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
So I’m writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that’s good. It might take longer to find me, but I think that niche is perhaps underserved, so I’m going to serve that.
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.
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.
