Paula Cole Quotes


"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Success, Successful, Want)

"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
(Related: Happiness, Darkness)

"The monsters are in your own head."
- Paula Cole
"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Art)

"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
(Related: Music, Life, Answers, Meaning, Question)

"Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Hair)

"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Success, Adversity)

"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
(Related: Anger, Music, Compassion, Luck, Pain)

"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Sun)

"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Death, Awards)

"Just watching my cats can make me happy."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Cats)

"I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Hope, Artists, Future)