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 DURITZ. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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