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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.

Ben Folds

Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
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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Song Writing Years
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
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
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.
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Gay Looks Men
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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Numbers Pressure Real
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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Business Happens Music Sometimes
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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Sarcastic Singing Writing
Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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Couple Sleep Sorry
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’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
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.
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Confession Fantasy Song
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds

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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