Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANNSomething gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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