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.
ADAM DURITZCloseness 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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 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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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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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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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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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We 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.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Closeness 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.
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