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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.

Adam Duritz

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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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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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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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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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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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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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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