There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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 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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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 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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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 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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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