Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

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.

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

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