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, soci…

- Adam Duritz

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

- Adam Duritz

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…

- Adam Duritz

I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were …

- Adam Duritz

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

- Adam Duritz

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

- Adam Duritz

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 …

- Adam Duritz

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

- Adam Duritz

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…

- Adam Duritz