I didn’t want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren’t good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that’s not the healthiest of responses. Aimee Mann Read Quote
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. Aimee Mann Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Aimee Mann Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Aimee Mann Read Quote
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 Read Quote