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

Adam Duritz

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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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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All my songs are where I am.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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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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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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