Ben folds where is he from

We're growing old. It's getting late. 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.

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.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up 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. A lot of year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. 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.

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. 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.

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I always feel creative, but I feel like I have time to be creative. I killed her! Is the record informed by ? Back in the Sixties, there are all these songs with social changes in the background.

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