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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.

Adam Duritz

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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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’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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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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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