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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.

Ben Folds

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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
I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
BEN FOLDS

Gay Looks Men
If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
BEN FOLDS

Girlfriend People Sleep
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
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
BEN FOLDS

Fringe Nice Way
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.
BEN FOLDS

Confession Fantasy Song
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.
BEN FOLDS

Closets People Want
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.
BEN FOLDS

Learn People Rate
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDS

Men Thinking Years
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
BEN FOLDS

Proud Simplicity Writing
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.
BEN FOLDS

Cards Scotch Writing

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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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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