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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.

Aimee Mann

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Engage Happy Interest Think
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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Again Air Crime Nightly Retrace Return Scene Step
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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Artist Deal Distribution Entity Label Own Record Sign Trying
Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Lost Perspective Something Translate
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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Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
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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Computer Divorce Down Generated Guy Literally Lot Music Sit Sound
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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Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible
It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Control Describe Easy Horrible Life Own Shame
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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Almost Choice Drug Grew Seventies Take Think Thought
It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Apart Dream Easy Gloom Telling Waking Walking
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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Appear Couple Gotten Idea Last Made One Past Thing Uncomfortable Year
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

Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
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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Admit Bad Confront Doubt Maybe Momentum Past Sake
I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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Consider Great Least Myself Proof Think Writer
They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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Artist Deal Distribution Label Lot Product Sign Want
I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
AIMEE MANN

Become Better Happy Misread Other Some Suppose Thing

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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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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