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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 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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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 can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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