A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDSIn 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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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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 start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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