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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Adam Duritz

. 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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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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Better Fight Fighting Heart Heartbreaking Live Losing Truth Winning
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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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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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 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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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