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.
ADAM DURITZI 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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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 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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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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