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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

Aimee Mann

I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Label Major More Own Record Selling
I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Different Flavor Piano Song Want Writing
Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
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Dignity Graceful Problem Series Solve Way
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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Brain Know Need Someone Tell Want
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
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
Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Business Clearly Content Lot
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 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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Busy Dough Drummer Limit Manger Need Play
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
Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Anyone Freak Love never Rank Save Sex Suspect
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
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.’
AIMEE MANN

Allow Anything Girl Gotten Grew Older Realize Thought Time Women
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
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
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.
AIMEE MANN

Album Antidote Aspect Emotion Everyone Extract Feeling Music Think

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

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