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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.

Adam Duritz

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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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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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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