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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

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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Better Create Embrace Life Make Sometimes Take Understand
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Always First List Melody Music Together Word
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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Away Group Myself Peer People Play Young
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Alone Everbody Feel Lonely Love never
All my songs are where I am.
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Deam Deserve Platform Song Success
That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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Art Come People Song Thing Understand Worthwhile
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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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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Another Appreciate Building Closeness Crazy Fall Fear Painful Person Physically
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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Act Anyway Bravery Face Hurt Scare Thing
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
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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Important Nothing Part Up Wake World
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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Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
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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Eight End Infinite Kid Old Possibilities Possible Remember Stupid
Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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Better Fight Fighting Heart Heartbreaking Live Losing Truth Winning

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

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