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.
From Ben Folds
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.
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.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
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.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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.
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