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

Adam Duritz

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Breathing Fantastic Mean Song Writing
When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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Away Group Myself Peer People Play Young
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Distance Into Life never Shame Started
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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Another Appreciate Building Closeness Crazy Fall Fear Painful Person Physically
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Alone Everbody Feel Lonely Love never
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Anyone Better Important Just More Necessarily Taking Talking
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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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Always First List Melody Music Together Word
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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Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage
A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Embrace Figure Hold Need Patience Want
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
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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Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
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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Creativity Experiment Fighting Idea Impossible Journey Life Six
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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Ask Comfortable Completely Fright God Me People Rest Stage

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