Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
ADAM YOUNGThankfully, 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.
More Adam Young Quotes
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A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers.
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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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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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When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything
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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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Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.
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Cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.
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It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn’t do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes.
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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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Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I’ll wrench them away,then I’ll take my leave & I won’t even look back
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I live alone in a house,
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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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Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so
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Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
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It’s a very happy productive place.
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Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.
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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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As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is
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I’m scared to death that I’ll never be afraid
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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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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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If you can fly, don’t stop at the sky, ’cause there’s footprints on the moon!
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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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“If by chance you ever feel as though you’ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me.
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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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Wars–and what is war except crime on a mass scale?–destroy rather than produce.
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