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I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

Andrew McMahon

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Andrew McMahon
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 3
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And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.
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I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.
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I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.
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There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.
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I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.
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I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.
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...You know what I mean?
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The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common we're just a crowd of people who don't really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do. I guess I'll put my sunglasses on and pretend, like everyone else, that I too belong here.
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And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.
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I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.
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