People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANNYou 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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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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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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