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.
ADAM DURITZPeople 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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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of 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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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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