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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Aimee Mann

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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Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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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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Addiction Discover Generate Guy Instrument Isolation Last People Perfect Record Sitting
People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anymore People Record Support Themselves
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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Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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Back Better Drive Forever Future Keys Perfect Staying Together Zero
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
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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Allow Anything Girl Gotten Grew Older Realize Thought Time Women
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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Album Antidote Aspect Emotion Everyone Extract Feeling Music Think
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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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.
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And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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Going Greed Hear Motivation Music Reflect Sole
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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Jailhouse King Lighten Load Queen Road Share Think Thinking
The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Always Coming Knock never One Out Punch
They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Everything Girl Interest Interesting Learn Scuba Surf Thought Want
The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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Back Black Burn Care Flame Game Moth Once Real See Wing
It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Control Describe Easy Horrible Life Own Shame
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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Everything Great Inspirational Mean Place Really
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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Consider Great Least Myself Proof Think Writer
No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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Care Deal Flame Moth Real Sweetheart

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