Latest Ben Folds Quotes from Interviews

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• I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

  Ben Folds

  Sometimes, Music Business, Happens

  Source: collider.com

• I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

  Ben Folds

  Letting Go, People, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

• When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

  Ben Folds

  Thinking, Share

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

  Ben Folds

  Independent, Hands, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

  Ben Folds

  Average, Vintage, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

  Ben Folds

  Gay, Men, Looks

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

  Ben Folds

  People, Want, Closets

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Thinking, Alcohol

  Source: www.billboard.com

• Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

  Ben Folds

  Cheating, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Scotch, Cards

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.

  Ben Folds

  Energy, Done, Sometimes

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.

  Ben Folds

  Kings, Couple, Years

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

  Ben Folds

  Divorce, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

• The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

  Ben Folds

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

  Ben Folds

  Eye, People, Earth

  Source: www.billboard.com

• If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

  Ben Folds

  Girlfriend, Sleep, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

• The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Email, Bars

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

  Ben Folds

  Mind, Needs, Realizing

  Source: www.billboard.com

• If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Fantasy, Confession

  Source: www.billboard.com

• My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

  Ben Folds

  Parent, Married, Ifs

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

  Ben Folds

  Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.billboard.com

• People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

  Ben Folds

  People, Rate

  Source: www.billboard.com

• What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

  Ben Folds

  Kings, Stupid, Work Out

  Source: www.billboard.com