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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

Adam Duritz

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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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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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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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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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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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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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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