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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Adam Duritz

That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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