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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.

Ben Folds

You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
BEN FOLDS

Letting People Stuff
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.
BEN FOLDS

Gigs Pain White
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.
BEN FOLDS

Couple Sleep Sorry
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
BEN FOLDS

Fighting Job Song
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
BEN FOLDS

Gravity Song Way
Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
BEN FOLDS

Cheating Lying Mean
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
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDS

Feels Want Withholding
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.
BEN FOLDS

Art Mindset Trying
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
BEN FOLDS

Day Love Valentines Way
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
BEN FOLDS

Always Myself Record Times Twice
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
BEN FOLDS

Kids Rocks Roll
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
BEN FOLDS

Learn People Rate
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.
BEN FOLDS

Done Energy Sometimes
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
BEN FOLDS

Fighting Growing Hurt Up
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
BEN FOLDS

Growing Reality Waiting

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