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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

Ben Folds

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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Gigs Pain White
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Failure Married Parent
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
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
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
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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Done Energy Sometimes
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
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
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
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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 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 aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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People Thinking Writing

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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