American - Musician | April 5, 1968 -
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.
Paula Cole
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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.
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Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
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I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
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I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
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I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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