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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

Adam Duritz

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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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’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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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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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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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.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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