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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.

Adam Duritz

The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
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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Bottle Country Enjoy Girl Got Mexico Moment Place Shot Tequilla
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Always First List Melody Music Together Word
Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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Better Fight Fighting Heart Heartbreaking Live Losing Truth Winning
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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Aswell Losing Make Change might Myself Thing Trying
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Around Career Reason Song Still Successful Ten Year
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Alone Everbody Feel Lonely Love never
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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Feel Good Group Music People Person Play Together Young
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Effect Feel Stuff World Write Writing
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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Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage
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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Hold Moment Myself Paas Remember Tell Time
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
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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Anything Develop Last Million Opinion People Realise Record Smile While
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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Involved Money Movie Much Screws Someone Somewhere Try Trying
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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Eight End Infinite Kid Old Possibilities Possible Remember Stupid

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