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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.

Adam Duritz

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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Breathing Fantastic Mean Song Writing
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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