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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

Adam Duritz

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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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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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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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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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