There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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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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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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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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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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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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