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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.

Ben Folds

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
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
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Kings Out Stupid Work
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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
Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
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 you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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Albums Beats Unique
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
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
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
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
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
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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Couple Kings Years
I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Earth Eyes People
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
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
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Director Song Thinking
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
People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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Average Business Overtones Public

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.

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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.

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