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. 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.

Adam Duritz

Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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. 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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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 a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do 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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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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