Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy. Aimee Mann More Quotes by Aimee Mann More Quotes From Aimee Mann 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. Aimee Mann conflict drama interesting I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. Aimee Mann envy careers trying People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves. Aimee Mann records support people Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting. Aimee Mann labels knowing interesting I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable. Aimee Mann asking believe people I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. Aimee Mann selling-more records labels It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care. Aimee Mann care important want I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that. Aimee Mann car years fall 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. Aimee Mann wreckage return air All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want. Aimee Mann want brain needs Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. Aimee Mann translate perspective lost I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become. Aimee Mann should The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load. Aimee Mann queens kings thinking I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged. Aimee Mann engaged thinking It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. Aimee Mann waking easy dream You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame Aimee Mann cages sweet bird 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. Aimee Mann albums feelings thinking 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. Aimee Mann addiction perfect people There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. Aimee Mann divorce music guy I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music. Aimee Mann greed motivation thinking
