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.
ADAM DURITZWhen 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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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. 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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