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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

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I've been playing music most of my life.

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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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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.

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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

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When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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

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

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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.

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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

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

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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

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I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

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