Aimee Mann Quotes

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear.

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.