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.
ADAM DURITZOver 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 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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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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