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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.

Ben Folds

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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Divorce Mirrors People
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
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
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
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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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Cards Scotch Writing
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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Cheating Lying Mean
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
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
Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
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
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
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
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
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
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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Art Mindset Trying
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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Records Self Sound
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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Adelaide Country Home
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
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
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
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds

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