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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

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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 think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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 have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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