I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
ADAM DURITZFor me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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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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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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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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