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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Adam Duritz

You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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 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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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