I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
BEN FOLDSThe cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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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 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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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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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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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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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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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 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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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