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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.

Adam Duritz

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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