If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

Aimee Mann

Categorized in : Trying Artist Labels

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

drug brain feelings

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.

momentum doubt past

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

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

matter people

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.

dignity problem way

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

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

stupid love thinking

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

recovery people thinking

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think... by Aimee Mann

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

proof great-writers thinking

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.

zero keys perfect

I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

mind interesting needs

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's... by Aimee Mann

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

really-great inspirational mean

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to y... by Aimee Mann

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

important doe trying

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

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

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more... by Aimee Mann

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

who-cares interesting thinking

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on i... by Aimee Mann

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

standards process lows

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

limits play needs

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

couple past ideas

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.

benefits labels feels

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'

why-not girl interesting

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.

trainers gym boxing

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.

conflict drama interesting