"I don’t like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me." ― Paula Cole Topic(s): Death More From Paula Cole "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." "When you’re a plebeian you want success, and when you’re successful you want to be a plebeian again." "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." More In Death "Everybody thinks I’m at death’s door, but I’m not. There’s nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!"― Bobby Darin "Life is but a moment, death also is but another."― Robert H. Schuller "The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services."― Jim Lehrer