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 MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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You 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.
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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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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