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.
AIMEE MANNFor 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
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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 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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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