Latest Adam Duritz Quotes from Interviews

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• I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

  Adam Duritz

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

• I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

  Adam Duritz

  Pain, Breathing, Years

• If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

  Adam Duritz

  Letting Go, Care, Want

• Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

  Adam Duritz

  Hurt, Bravery, Scare

• I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

  Adam Duritz

  Pain, Half, Legs

• I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

  Adam Duritz

  Panic, Crisis

• Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

  Adam Duritz

  Crazy, Fall, Appreciate

• You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

  Adam Duritz

  Want, Embrace, Figures

• I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

  Adam Duritz

  Want, Feels, Been In Love

• I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

  Adam Duritz

  Thinking, People, Make You Happy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

  Adam Duritz

  Spiritual, Lonely, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time; it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Feel Good, Together

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Waste, Sitting

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

  Adam Duritz

  People, Stage, Ask Me

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.

  Adam Duritz

  Nice, Feelings, Way

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

  Adam Duritz

  Writing, How You Feel, Feels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

  Adam Duritz

  Writing, World, Stuff

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

  Adam Duritz

  Embrace

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

  Adam Duritz

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Abuse, Heartbreaking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

  Adam Duritz

  Thinking, Life Is, Moments

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

  Adam Duritz

  Fighting, Winning, Heartbreaking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

  Adam Duritz

  Priorities, Band

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

• It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

  Adam Duritz

  Creativity, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.