Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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