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 More Quotes by Adam Duritz More Quotes From Adam Duritz 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 lonely spiritual thinking 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 appreciate crazy fall 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 people needs thinking I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage. Adam Duritz connections understanding people 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 breathing pain years 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 moments life-is thinking 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 For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change. Adam Duritz losing trying might If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain... Adam Duritz wraps daffodil pain Your misery is everyone else's entertainment. Adam Duritz misery entertainment It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first. Adam Duritz melody together firsts 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. Adam Duritz groups play people 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 I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic. Adam Duritz panic crisis 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 feel-good together people I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. Adam Duritz writing firsts thinking 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 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 ask-me stage people You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel. Adam Duritz how-you-feel writing feels Being in a band is about making the band the priority. Adam Duritz priorities band
