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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.

Adam Duritz

I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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Believe Country Couple Down Living Obsessed People Spent
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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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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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
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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