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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

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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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’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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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’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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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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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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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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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.

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