80 Quotes by Paula Cole

I’m raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god’s kingdom.

I’d love to act. I feel that it’s another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

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