I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZTruth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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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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 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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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