Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANNBecause 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.’
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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