Ben Folds
Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott "Ben" Foldsis an American singer-songwriter and record producer. From 1995 to 2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. After the group temporarily disbanded, Folds performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world. The group reunited in 2011. He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor and "Weird Al" Yankovic and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth12 September 1966
CityWinston-Salem, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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.
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
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.
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
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.
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.
I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.
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.