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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.

Adam Duritz

A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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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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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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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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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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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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