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.
ADAM DURITZYou 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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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