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.
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.
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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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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to 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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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 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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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. 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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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