All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
AIMEE MANNIf your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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 believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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