You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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