Author Profile
Paula Cole
1968 • American • Musician
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Showing 35 quotesI 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
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.— Paula Cole
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.— Paula Cole
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
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.— Paula Cole
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
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
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
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
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
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.— Paula Cole