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.
AIMEE MANNI did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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 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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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