For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZFor me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZI 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.
ADAM DURITZYou want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
ADAM DURITZGot no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
ADAM DURITZThere is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZYour misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
ADAM DURITZAll my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZCloseness 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.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
ADAM DURITZI 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.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
ADAM DURITZI 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.
ADAM DURITZA long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZ