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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.

Ben Folds

And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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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Honesty Over Want You
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Heard Lying Often Spoke
Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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Proud Simplicity Writing
If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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might Past Redneck
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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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
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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Alcohol Thinking Writing
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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Adelaide Country Home
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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Business Happens Music Sometimes
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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Letting People Stuff
I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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Done Energy Sometimes
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence

I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.

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