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I’ve been playing music most of my life.

Adam Duritz

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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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 always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.

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