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.
ADAM DURITZYou 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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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 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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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 you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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. 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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