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.
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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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’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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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