. 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.
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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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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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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