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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.

Adam Duritz

Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
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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Feel Good Group Music People Person Play Together Young
You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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All Feel First People Person Time Writing
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Always First List Melody Music Together Word
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Alone Everbody Feel Lonely Love never
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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Away Group Myself Peer People Play Young
The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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Group Important Kind Life Look More People Shift Work
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Effect Feel Stuff World Write Writing
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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Creativity Experiment Fighting Idea Impossible Journey Life Six
I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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Being Breath Breathing Busy Pain People Trying Year
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
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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Hold Moment Myself Paas Remember Tell Time
. 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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Around Band Different Feel Good Make Person
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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Abuse Common Constant Heartbreaking Live People Truly
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
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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Anything Develop Last Million Opinion People Realise Record Smile While

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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