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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.

Adam Duritz

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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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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There’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.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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