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

Adam Duritz

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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I 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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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