Zitat des Tages von Ben Folds:
Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.
With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.
Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.
