If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZA long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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