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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

Adam Duritz

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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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 a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right 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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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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