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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 Mann

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.
AIMEE MANN

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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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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