People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
ADAM DURITZTruth 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’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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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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I’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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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