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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.

Aimee Mann

People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anymore People Record Support Themselves
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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Everything Interest Know Label Object Record
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
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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Cadence Interest Keep Left Make Mind Need Probably Real Turn
I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Great Music OK Some Young
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Engage Happy Interest Think
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
It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Anymore Matter People Real
Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Business Clearly Content Lot
And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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Going Greed Hear Motivation Music Reflect Sole
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
It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Apart Dream Easy Gloom Telling Waking Walking
It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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Care Good Great Important Movie Music Record Stuff Thing Want Way
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero
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
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.
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Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Anyone Freak Love never Rank Save Sex Suspect
And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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Anger Desperation Flame Flirt Fuel Good Like Need Nothing Real
I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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Boxing Famous Friend Gym Realy Train Trainer
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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Allergic Car Context Fall Listen Music Old Radio Reaction Thing Working Year
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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Asking Before Believe Heard People Something Unreasonable
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
I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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Become Better Happy Misread Other Some Suppose Thing
What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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Almost Conflict Drama Emotion Everyone Extract Interesting Resolution Strive
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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Addiction Discover Generate Guy Instrument Isolation Last People Perfect Record Sitting
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
It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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Again Avoid Case Come Dictionary Down Find Up Writing

The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.

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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.

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