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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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 YOUNG
It’s funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind
ADAM YOUNG
Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
ADAM YOUNG
When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything
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They met by accident.
ADAM YOUNG
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
ADAM YOUNG
It’s very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours
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But it’s a blast and I wouldn’t trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.
ADAM YOUNG
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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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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And when you’re a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder.
ADAM YOUNG
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.
ADAM YOUNG
Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
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I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.
ADAM YOUNG
The warlords–of war and peace–destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
ADAM YOUNG
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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