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.
ADAM DURITZCloseness 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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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There 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.
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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 is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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