I’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 DURITZThere 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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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