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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

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
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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Always Closeness Hard People Really Shame Want Work
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 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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Creativity Experiment Fighting Idea Impossible Journey Life Six
It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Daffodil Emotion Myself Pain Patience Wrap
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
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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Anything Develop Last Million Opinion People Realise Record Smile While
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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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
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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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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Believe Country Couple Down Living Obsessed People Spent
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
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Around Career Reason Song Still Successful Ten Year
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

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