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 MANNI 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 MANNAnd if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
AIMEE MANNClearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
AIMEE MANNSave me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
AIMEE MANNThe king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
AIMEE MANNIn the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
AIMEE MANNBecause 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.’
AIMEE MANNI certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNEverybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANNI don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
AIMEE MANNYou drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANNYou 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.
AIMEE MANNI think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
AIMEE MANNBetter take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
AIMEE MANNEveryone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
AIMEE MANNIf 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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