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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Adam Duritz

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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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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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
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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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 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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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 lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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