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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.

Ben Folds

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
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
The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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Animal Class Piano
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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
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
Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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Every Furniture One Piano Room The Piece
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Letting People Stuff
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
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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Bars Email Writing
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.
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Art Mindset Trying
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 nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.

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