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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.

Aimee Mann

Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Lost Perspective Something Translate
Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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Allow Anything Girl Gotten Grew Older Realize Thought Time Women
Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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Care Cool Interesting Less Thinking Want
Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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Back Better Drive Forever Future Keys Perfect Staying Together Zero
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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Artist Deal Distribution Entity Label Own Record Sign Trying
The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Always Coming Knock never One Out Punch
I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Everything Girl Interest Interesting Learn Scuba Surf Thought Want
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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Almost Conflict Drama Emotion Everyone Extract Interesting Resolution Strive
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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Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Anyone Freak Love never Rank Save Sex Suspect
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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Care Deal Flame Moth Real Sweetheart
I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Label Major More Own Record Selling
I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Change Chord Happen Interest Kept Mind Need Probably Same Slog Tendency
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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Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible
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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Admit Bad Confront Doubt Maybe Momentum Past Sake
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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Cadence Interest Keep Left Make Mind Need Probably Real Turn
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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Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
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.
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Boxing Famous Friend Gym Realy Train Trainer
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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Greed Living Make Making Motivation Thinking Trying Understand
Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Business Clearly Content Lot
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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Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Different Flavor Piano Song Want Writing
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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Become Better Happy Misread Other Some Suppose Thing
I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Love Stupid Think
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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Addiction Discover Generate Guy Instrument Isolation Last People Perfect Record Sitting
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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Again Avoid Case Come Dictionary Down Find Up Writing
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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Everything Interest Know Label Object Record

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