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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.

Adam Duritz

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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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 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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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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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 so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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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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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.

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