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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.
BEN FOLDS

Adelaide Country Home
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
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
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
BEN FOLDS

Kings Out Stupid Work
In 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.
BEN FOLDS

Records Self Sound
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.
BEN FOLDS

Records Sound Want
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
BEN FOLDS

Day Love Valentines Way
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
BEN FOLDS

Coast Headed Nowhere
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
BEN FOLDS

Fighting Growing Hurt Up
You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
BEN FOLDS

Albums Beats Unique
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
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.
BEN FOLDS

Sarcastic Singing Writing
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.
BEN FOLDS

List Sick Song
I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
BEN FOLDS

Easier Nice People
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
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.
BEN FOLDS

Girlfriend People Sleep

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