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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.

Ben Folds

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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Mistake Something Thinking
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Kings Out Stupid Work
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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Honesty Over Want You
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 way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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 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
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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Animal Class Piano
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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
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 feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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Sarcastic Singing Writing
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
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
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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Church Musician Writing
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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List Sick Song
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’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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Easier Nice People
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
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

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