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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
Ben Folds
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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
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Winston-Salem
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Benjamin Scott Folds
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I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... 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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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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When 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.
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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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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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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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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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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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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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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
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I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.
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If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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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