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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.

Adam Duritz

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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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Anyone Better Important Just More Necessarily Taking Talking
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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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Activity Entertain Entertainment Event Everyone Fun Misery
I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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All my songs are where I am.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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Another Appreciate Building Closeness Crazy Fall Fear Painful Person Physically
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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Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
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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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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Around Career Reason Song Still Successful Ten Year

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