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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.

Adam Duritz

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
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
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
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
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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Anything Develop Last Million Opinion People Realise Record Smile While
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Breathing Fantastic Mean Song Writing
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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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Band Brand Making Music Name Prior Priorities Sound
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
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
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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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame
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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Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
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
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
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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Always Closeness Hard People Really Shame Want Work
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

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