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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.

Adam Duritz

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
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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Again Anxiety Closeness Life People Proximity Want
When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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Away Group Myself Peer People Play Young
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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Creative Expotentialy Money More Mousse People Process
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
It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame
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
Closeness 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.
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Always Closeness Hard People Really Shame Want Work
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Always First List Melody Music Together Word
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
Got 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.
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Bottle Country Enjoy Girl Got Mexico Moment Place Shot Tequilla
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’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.
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Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage
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
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Daffodil Emotion Myself Pain Patience Wrap

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