I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
AIMEE MANNYou 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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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