"Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail."
"I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true."
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Source: Song: Twilight, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004
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