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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.

Adam Duritz

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
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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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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Eventually, 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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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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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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Hold Moment Myself Paas Remember Tell Time
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
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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
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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Ask Comfortable Completely Fright God Me People Rest Stage
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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Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage

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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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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