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.
ADAM DURITZThere’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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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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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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