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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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I’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.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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’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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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 so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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