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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

Ben Folds

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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Adelaide Country Home
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Records Sound Want
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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People Song White
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Heard Lying Often Spoke
If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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might Past Redneck
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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Proud Simplicity 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
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
Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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Enough Grow Up Screen Teenager
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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.
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Cards Scotch Writing
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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People Thinking Writing

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

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