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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.

Adam Duritz

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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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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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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. 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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