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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. "
Paula Cole
Daughter
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Bad
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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. "
Paula Cole
Pain
Humble
Compassion
" 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. "
Paula Cole
Music
Myself
Vision
" I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. "
Paula Cole
Living
City
Myself
" 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. "
Paula Cole
Self
Together
Thinking
" 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
Ocean
Me
Freedom
" 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. "
Paula Cole
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Music
Way
" 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. "
Paula Cole
Too Much
Me
Looking Back
" Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. "
Paula Cole
Introvert
Writer
Process
" 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. "
Paula Cole
Abyss
Darkness
Find
" I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively. "
Paula Cole
Always
Widely
Made
" 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
Day
Girl
Feel
" I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success. "
Paula Cole
Working
Accept
Adversity
" I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. "
Paula Cole
My Own
Awards
Death
" Just watching my cats can make me happy. "
Paula Cole
Watching
Me
Cats
" 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
Better
Fans
Hope
" I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life. "
Paula Cole
See
Living
Me
" When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again. "
Paula Cole
You
Want
Successful
" 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
Up
Meant To Be
Australia
" I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. "
Paula Cole
Think
You
Life
" Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair. "
Paula Cole
Feminists
Hair
Psyched
" 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
See
Walk
Abyss
" I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. "
Paula Cole
Memories
Childhood
Childhood Memories
" The monsters are in your own head. "
Paula Cole
Monsters
Head
Your
" The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud. "
Paula Cole
Flower
Bold
Sun