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.”
ADAM YOUNGLike, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.
More Adam Young Quotes
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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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Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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I’m a very introverted guy, so I don’t need to be around people for as long as someone who’s very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.
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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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The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it,
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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
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Wars–and what is war except crime on a mass scale?–destroy rather than produce.
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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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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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Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise.
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Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
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And when you’re a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder.
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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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If you can fly, don’t stop at the sky, ’cause there’s footprints on the moon!
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