You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
ADAM DURITZLosing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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