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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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. 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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.

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