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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.

Adam Duritz

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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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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 wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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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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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 lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or 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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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