He: “Whale you be my valentine?” She: “Dolphinitely.
ADAM YOUNGI really do like surprises.
More Adam Young Quotes
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I’m a studio guy. That’s really what I love the most.
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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
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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 when you’re a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder.
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For me, it’s always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere – and it’s kind of like a need of mine.
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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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But I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like… I’m not married.
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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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Thankfully, I’ve been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I’m very grateful to be able to control what I can.
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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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But yeah I’m very much a spontaneous guy and it’s sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.
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I built you a sandcastle because you’re a princess, but I tore it down because I’m a loser.
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I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.
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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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I live alone in a house,
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Cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.
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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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Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.
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I’m scared to death that I’ll never be afraid
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Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.
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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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Wars–and what is war except crime on a mass scale?–destroy rather than produce.
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Port Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.”
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They met by accident.
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Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise.
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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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