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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.

Aimee Mann

I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
AIMEE MANN

Love Stupid Think
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
It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Control Describe Easy Horrible Life Own Shame
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
AIMEE MANN

Computer Divorce Down Generated Guy Literally Lot Music Sit Sound
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.
AIMEE MANN

Cadence Interest Keep Left Make Mind Need Probably Real Turn
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.
AIMEE MANN

Admit Bad Confront Doubt Maybe Momentum Past Sake
The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
AIMEE MANN

Always Coming Knock never One Out Punch
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
AIMEE MANN

Everything Interest Know Label Object Record
I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
AIMEE MANN

Asking Before Believe Heard People Something Unreasonable
I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
AIMEE MANN

Label Major More Own Record Selling
Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
AIMEE MANN

Anyone Freak Love never Rank Save Sex Suspect
Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Lost Perspective Something Translate
It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Apart Dream Easy Gloom Telling Waking Walking
I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANN

Everything Girl Interest Interesting Learn Scuba Surf Thought Want
People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANN

Anymore People Record Support Themselves
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
AIMEE MANN

Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero
It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
AIMEE MANN

Anymore Matter People Real
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 MANN

Allergic Car Context Fall Listen Music Old Radio Reaction Thing Working Year
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.
AIMEE MANN

Again Avoid Case Come Dictionary Down Find Up Writing
And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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Going Greed Hear Motivation Music Reflect Sole
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.
AIMEE MANN

Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
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.
AIMEE MANN

Care Deal Flame Moth Real Sweetheart
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
AIMEE MANN

Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
AIMEE MANN

Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANN

Great Music OK Some Young
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.
AIMEE MANN

Dignity Graceful Problem Series Solve Way
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANN

Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible

And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.

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