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.
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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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 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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about 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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