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.
AIMEE MANNIt’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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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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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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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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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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