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
paula trying
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.
monsters
The monsters are in your own head
pain anger humble
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.
pain world saturn
Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.
self-confidence enemy monsters
It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.
adversity difficult-situations accepting
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success
social-taboos laughing looks
I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.
challenges way naked
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.
cities accepting bigs
I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
couple too-much facts
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.
successful want plebeians
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.
music thank-god emotion
Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.
music destiny rivers
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.