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.
ADAM DURITZI 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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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 you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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