Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZThe 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 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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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