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.
ADAM DURITZYou want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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