I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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. 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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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