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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.

Adam Duritz

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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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 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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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