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
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
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.
Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you get off someone else can get on.
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.
I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.