Aimee Mann Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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