I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
ADAM DURITZI have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
ADAM DURITZI think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
ADAM DURITZI think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZAll my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZI 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.
ADAM DURITZI’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZI’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
ADAM DURITZBut 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.
ADAM DURITZOver 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 DURITZThere 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.
ADAM DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
ADAM DURITZSometimes 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.
ADAM DURITZThere’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.
ADAM DURITZThe 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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