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.
BEN FOLDSThe 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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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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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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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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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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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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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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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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