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.
ADAM DURITZYou 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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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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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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