My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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