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 MANNI don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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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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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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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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