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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.

Adam Duritz

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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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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. 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.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of 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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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