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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Adam Duritz

A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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 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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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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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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