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.
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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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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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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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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