When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
AIMEE MANNWhen things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
AIMEE MANNAnybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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 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 MANNYou 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.
AIMEE MANNI did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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.
AIMEE MANNIt’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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 MANNSave me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
AIMEE MANNWhen 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 MANNThe king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
AIMEE MANNClearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
AIMEE MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
AIMEE MANNAnd nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
AIMEE MANN