Adam Duritz
Adam Duritz
Adam Fredric Duritzis an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. He is best known for his role as frontman and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, in which he is a founding member and principal composer of their catalog of songs...
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth1 August 1964
CityBaltimore, MD
writing how-you-feel feels
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.
nice feelings way
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.
people feel-good together
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.
people sitting world
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.
spiritual lonely thinking
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.
play people peers
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.
priorities band
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
people understanding connections
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
embrace
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.
creativity fighting ideas
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.
fighting winning heartbreaking
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.
thinking life-is moments
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.
people anxiety want
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.
people abuse heartbreaking
I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.