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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.

Adam Duritz

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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Alone Like Lonely People Person Spiritual Thinking World
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Distance Into Life never Shame Started
All my songs are where I am.
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Deam Deserve Platform Song Success
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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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
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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Better Create Embrace Life Make Sometimes Take Understand
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
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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Better Fight Fighting Heart Heartbreaking Live Losing Truth Winning
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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Again Anxiety Closeness Life People Proximity Want
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
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 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
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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Break Change Find Goes Murder One Rhyme Some Sorrow Way
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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Adept Doing Eventually Make Over Proven Quite Something Year
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
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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Eight End Infinite Kid Old Possibilities Possible Remember Stupid
It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame

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