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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.

Adam Duritz

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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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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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’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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.

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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.

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