I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZYou 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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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about 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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All my songs are where I am.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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Losing 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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