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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.

Adam Duritz

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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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. 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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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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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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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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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