Quotes by Paula Cole

About Paula Cole:

Paula Cole is an American singer-songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her song "I Don't Want To Wait" was used as the theme song to the television show Dawson's Creek.
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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

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

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest i...

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

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The monsters are in your own head.

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I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

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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.

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

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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 ...

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaula Cole
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • BornApril 5, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Musician; Singer-songwriter
  • AwardsGrammy Award For Best New Artist