If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZI have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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If 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.
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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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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 really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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