People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANNIt’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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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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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 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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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Nightly 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.
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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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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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