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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.

Adam Duritz

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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