You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZLosing 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 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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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 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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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