I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
ADAM DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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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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