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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.

Adam Duritz

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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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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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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Biggest Embrace Happen Life Live Moment Saddest Thing Thinking
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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Ask Comfortable Completely Fright God Me People Rest Stage
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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Distance Into Life never Shame Started
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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.

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