Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
BEN FOLDSEveryone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
BEN FOLDSIf you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
BEN FOLDSEven though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
BEN FOLDSThe press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
BEN FOLDSThe clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
BEN FOLDSWhen someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
BEN FOLDSI 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 FOLDSIt’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
BEN FOLDSI feel like a quote out of context.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
BEN FOLDSBeing capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
BEN FOLDSBecause I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
BEN FOLDSA lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDSThe way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
BEN FOLDSBilly Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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