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.
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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 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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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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. 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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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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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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