You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
ADAM DURITZYou want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
ADAM DURITZCloseness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
ADAM DURITZPeople really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
ADAM DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
ADAM DURITZWe waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
ADAM DURITZI think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZI’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZEventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
ADAM DURITZLosing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
ADAM DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZYour misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZBut 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.
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
ADAM DURITZIt’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.
ADAM DURITZ