Paula Cole Quotes

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

I can't imagine life without singing.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Music I do just for me.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

Music is my release.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

My art completes my life.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

I love singing just for my own benefit.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.