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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.

Aimee Mann

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
The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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Back Black Burn Care Flame Game Moth Once Real See Wing
When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Everything Great Inspirational Mean Place Really
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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Again Air Crime Nightly Retrace Return Scene Step
Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Business Clearly Content Lot
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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Care Good Great Important Movie Music Record Stuff Thing Want Way
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
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Engage Happy Interest Think
I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Change Chord Happen Interest Kept Mind Need Probably Same Slog Tendency
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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Album Antidote Aspect Emotion Everyone Extract Feeling Music Think
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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Become Better Happy Misread Other Some Suppose Thing
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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Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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Everything Interest Know Label Object Record
Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Lost Perspective Something Translate
At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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Benefit Feel Label Major Start Work Working
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero

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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