A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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 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 aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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