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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

Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
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.
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Girlfriend People Sleep
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.
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Gigs Pain White
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
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
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
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
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Always Myself Record Times Twice
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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.
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Records Self Sound
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.
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Couple Sleep Sorry
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
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
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
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Art Inspired Pops

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