Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mannis an American rock singer, singer-songwriter, bassist and guitarist. She was the bassist and a vocalist for the band 'Til Tuesday during the 1980s and since then she has primarily released albums and performed as a solo musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 September 1960
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
believe people asking
I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.
people support records
People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.
perfect addiction people
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
people matter
It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.
labels benefits feels
At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.
brain want needs
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
selling-more records labels
I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
couple past years
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.
play limits needs
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.
standards lows process
If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.
knowing interesting records
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.
air return wreckage
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.
feelings drug brain
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.
sweet bird cages
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame