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.
ADAM DURITZI have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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. 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.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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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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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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