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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

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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Fighting Job Song
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
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Girlfriend People Sleep
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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Anything People Person Strange
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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 less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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Bars Email Writing
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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Cards Scotch Writing
I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Earth Eyes People
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
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 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 have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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Done Energy Sometimes
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

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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