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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

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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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 find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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