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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…

Adam Duritz

A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
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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Actually Involved Live Lot Need People Think Thinking Worse
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
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
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Anyone Better Important Just More Necessarily Taking Talking
All my songs are where I am.
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Deam Deserve Platform Song Success
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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Creative Expotentialy Money More Mousse People Process
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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Group Important Kind Life Look More People Shift Work
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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Involved Money Movie Much Screws Someone Somewhere Try Trying
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Care Caring Go Just Letting Loosen Really Someone Sometimes Want
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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Better Create Embrace Life Make Sometimes Take Understand
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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Act Anyway Bravery Face Hurt Scare Thing
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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Again Aside Feel Life Love Stood Terrifying Want
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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Bottle Country Enjoy Girl Got Mexico Moment Place Shot Tequilla
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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Ask Comfortable Completely Fright God Me People Rest Stage
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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Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Distance Into Life never Shame Started
Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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Another Appreciate Building Closeness Crazy Fall Fear Painful Person Physically
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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Creativity Experiment Fighting Idea Impossible Journey Life Six
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Effect Feel Stuff World Write Writing
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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Art Come People Song Thing Understand Worthwhile
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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Feel Good Group Music People Person Play Together Young
The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…

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