94 Quotes by Adam Duritz

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.

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.

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.

Time and time again I can’t please myself.

I’ve been playing music most of my life.

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

My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.

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.

That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.