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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

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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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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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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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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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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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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