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Time and time again I can’t please myself.

Adam Duritz

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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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.

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