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.
AIMEE MANNYou 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.
AIMEE MANNKnowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
AIMEE MANNClearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
AIMEE MANNSomething gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
AIMEE MANNEveryone’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.
AIMEE MANNI think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
AIMEE MANNOne 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.
AIMEE MANNSave me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
AIMEE MANNI certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNI don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
AIMEE MANNI probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANNI thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANNIt’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
AIMEE MANNBut 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.
AIMEE MANNWhen 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.
AIMEE MANN