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

Adam Duritz

. 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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Around Band Different Feel Good Make Person
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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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
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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Better Create Embrace Life Make Sometimes Take Understand
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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Actually Involved Live Lot Need People Think Thinking Worse
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Breathing Fantastic Mean Song Writing
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
The 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.
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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
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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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Daffodil Emotion Myself Pain Patience Wrap
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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Important Nothing Part Up Wake World
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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Abuse Common Constant Heartbreaking Live People Truly
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Embrace Figure Hold Need Patience Want
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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Contrast Door Fog Front Ghost Notice Step White
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
I 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.
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Eight End Infinite Kid Old Possibilities Possible Remember Stupid

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