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

Adam Duritz

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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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 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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.

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