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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

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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Church Musician Writing
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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Mistake Something Thinking
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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
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
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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Anything People Person Strange
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’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
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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Hands Independent Mind
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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Block Coffee
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

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