I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
ADAM DURITZI’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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