Paula Cole Quotes & Sayings

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

“Just watching my cats can make me happy.”

“Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”