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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

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
I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Change Chord Happen Interest Kept Mind Need Probably Same Slog Tendency
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
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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Care Deal Flame Moth Real Sweetheart
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
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
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
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
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
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Label Major More Own Record Selling
Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
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Album Antidote Aspect Emotion Everyone Extract Feeling Music 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
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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Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Everything Great Inspirational Mean Place Really
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
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
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
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
Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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Care Cool Interesting Less Thinking Want
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
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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Brain Drug Everybody Feeling Something Stop Understand
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
I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Everything Girl Interest Interesting Learn Scuba Surf Thought Want
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
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
People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANN

Anymore People Record Support Themselves

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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