I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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