I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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 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.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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