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

Adam Duritz

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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Again Aside Feel Life Love Stood Terrifying Want
You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
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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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
. 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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Around Band Different Feel Good Make Person
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
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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Biggest Embrace Happen Life Live Moment Saddest Thing Thinking
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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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