Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANNIf your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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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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