And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
AIMEE MANNAnybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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