Ben Folds

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not. ”

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. ”

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place. ”

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material. ”

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point. ”

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way. ”

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”