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 DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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