Quotes from Paula Cole

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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. . . .

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

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

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

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

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

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

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

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

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

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 if you actually do.

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