When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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. 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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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