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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.

Aimee Mann

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Love Stupid Think
It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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