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.
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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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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