Top 40 Paula Cole Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I’d be in a prison if I didn’t.”

— Paula Cole

3. “I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.”

— Paula Cole

4. “You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.”

— Paula Cole

5. “I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it’s in the music.”

— Paula Cole

6. “The monsters are in your own head.”

— Paula Cole

7. “Welcome to the church of me.”

— Paula Cole

8. “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

9. “Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.”

— Paula Cole

10. “I’m a songwriter who’s put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.”

— Paula Cole

11. “I’m raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.”

— Paula Cole

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “Just watching my cats can make me happy.”

— Paula Cole

17. “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

18. “Our planet is a tiny atom in god’s kingdom.”

— Paula Cole

19. “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

20. “I’m accepting I’m not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.”

— Paula Cole

21. “And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.”

— Paula Cole

22. “I wore Nietzsche’s eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven’t been me.”

— Paula Cole

23. “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

24. “Hitler’s brothers are on the rise, they’re wearing everyday disguises.”

— Paula Cole

25. “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

26. “When you’re a plebeian you want success, and when you’re successful you want to be a plebeian again.”

— Paula Cole

27. “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

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

— Paula Cole

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

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

— Paula Cole

34. “I’m used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.”

— Paula Cole

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

— Paula Cole

36. “I’m glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.”

— Paula Cole

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

— Paula Cole

38. “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

39. “I don’t like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.”

— Paula Cole

40. “I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.”

— Paula Cole