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.
ADAM DURITZEventually, 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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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. 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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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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