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 DURITZYou 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 DURITZOver 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.
ADAM DURITZWe waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
ADAM DURITZI can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZPeople really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZCloseness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
ADAM DURITZYou aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZI’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
ADAM DURITZIf 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 DURITZIt’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.
ADAM DURITZIf you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
ADAM DURITZTime and time again I can’t please myself.
ADAM DURITZGot 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.
ADAM DURITZ