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

Adam Duritz

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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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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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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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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