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.
AIMEE MANNI don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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