I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZAll my songs are where I am.
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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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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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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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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 get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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All my songs are where I am.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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