Your 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.
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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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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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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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Closeness 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.
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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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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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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’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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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