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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.

Ben Folds

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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Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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Enough Grow Up Screen Teenager
I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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Couple Kings Years
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
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
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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
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
Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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Every Furniture One Piano Room The Piece
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Director Song Thinking
I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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Average People Vintage
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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
I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Gay Looks Men
If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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might Past Redneck
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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Feels Want Withholding

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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