Zitat des Tages von Paula Cole:
The monsters are in your own head.
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
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.
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
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 don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
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.
I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
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.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.