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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 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
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Heard Lying Often Spoke
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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
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
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
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
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’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
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
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
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
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
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
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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
I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Earth Eyes People
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
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
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Kings Out Stupid Work
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
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
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
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

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