I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
ADAM DURITZIt’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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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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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