If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZYou aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZThere 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.
ADAM DURITZThat’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 DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZGot 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.
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
ADAM DURITZI think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZThe 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.
ADAM DURITZI 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.
ADAM DURITZThe 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.
ADAM DURITZThere is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZFor me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
ADAM DURITZBravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
ADAM DURITZ. 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.
ADAM DURITZ