Quotes by Paula Cole

• 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.
• When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
• 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.
• The monsters are in your own head.
• I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
• 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.
• Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
• I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
• 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.
• The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
• I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
• Just watching my cats can make me happy.
• I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.