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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

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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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’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.
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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 not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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Sometimes 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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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