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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

Ben Folds

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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Mind Needs Realizing
I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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Alcohol Thinking Writing
I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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Closets People Want
I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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Always Myself Record Times Twice
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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Adelaide Country Home
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Failure Married Parent
The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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List Sick Song
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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Records Self Sound
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Letting People Stuff
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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Business Happens Music Sometimes
You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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Albums Beats Unique

Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

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