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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Adam Duritz

You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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All Feel First People Person Time Writing
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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Better Fight Fighting Heart Heartbreaking Live Losing Truth Winning
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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Actually Involved Live Lot Need People Think Thinking Worse
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Effect Feel Stuff World Write Writing
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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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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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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Creative Expotentialy Money More Mousse People Process
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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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking
A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
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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Alone Like Lonely People Person Spiritual Thinking World
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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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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Break Change Find Goes Murder One Rhyme Some Sorrow Way
You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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Feel Good Group Music People Person Play Together Young
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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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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Away Group Myself Peer People Play Young
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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