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…
BEN FOLDSEverybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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