Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
ADAM DURITZSometimes 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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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