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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

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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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