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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
Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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Cheating Lying Mean
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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
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
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
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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Hands Independent Mind
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
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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 do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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Art Mindset Trying
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 don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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Block Coffee

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