I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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