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.
ADAM DURITZIt’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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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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 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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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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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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