I built you a sandcastle because you’re a princess, but I tore it down because I’m a loser.
ADAM YOUNGTheir stunned silence was always very reassuring.
More Adam Young Quotes
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In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses
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And show up in a place I never thought I’d ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I’d written so far away. To me, that’s so surreal.
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I live alone in a house,
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Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
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It’s funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind
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Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
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I really do like surprises.
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I’ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing.
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Usually, whatever’s in front of me is what I’m focused on and it’s 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next.
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When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it
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I’m not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se
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When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything
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I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
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So for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs.
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As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is
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It’s very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours
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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
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Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am not giving up.
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Unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale.
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I’ve definitely had a few moments in my life where I’ve seen somebody and it’s blown me away at first sight
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And I’m like, “I don’t know. That’s just the way I am.” So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, “You’re quiet, and that’s the way I love you.
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It’s been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it’s just been very exciting.
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And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?”
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Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
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You work so hard at something to make sure that it’s very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one.
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When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, “a pirate.”
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