A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDSThe 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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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