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.
ADAM DURITZFor me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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 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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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