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Time and time again I can’t please myself.

Adam Duritz

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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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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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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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