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.
AIMEE MANNNightly 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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