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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.

Ben Folds

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
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
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
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Records Sound Want
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
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Art Inspired Pops
It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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Numbers Pressure Real
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
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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 the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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Confession Fantasy Song
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
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

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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