I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
AIMEE MANNFor 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’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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You 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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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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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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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