We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
ADAM DURITZPeople ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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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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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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