I’ve been playing music most of my life.
ADAM DURITZI’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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Losing 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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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