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.
ADAM DURITZThere’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.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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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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.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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