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.
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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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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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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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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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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