Paula Cole
Paula Cole
Paula Coleis an American singer-songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her song "I Don't Want to Wait" was used as the theme song to the television show Dawson's Creek...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth5 April 1968
CityRockport, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
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Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.
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Welcome to the church of me.
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You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.
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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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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.
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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
awards artistic my-own
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
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Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.
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The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.
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And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.
introvert process internals
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
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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.