I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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