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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Adam Duritz

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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Act Anyway Bravery Face Hurt Scare Thing
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 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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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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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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