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.
ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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 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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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