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.
ADAM DURITZCloseness 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.
ADAM DURITZThe nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
ADAM DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZI have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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 DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
ADAM DURITZThe 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.
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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 DURITZI’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZI think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZOver 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.
ADAM DURITZTruth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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