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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

It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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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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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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