I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
ADAM DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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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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