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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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