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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.

Adam Duritz

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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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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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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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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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