Quotes from Adam Duritz

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

I've been playing music most of my life.

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

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

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

Time and time again I can't please myself.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.