You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANNIn 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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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