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.
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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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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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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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