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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

Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
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
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
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
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
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
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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Always Myself Record Times Twice
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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People Song White
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
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
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
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 aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
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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Proud Simplicity 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
It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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Hands Independent Mind
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

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