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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

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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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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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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