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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Adam Duritz

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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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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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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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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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