"Maybe that’s just growing up. When you’re young, you tell yourself things like “Well, if it didn’t work out, it wasn’t meant to be” as if that actually meant something just because it sounds like it does. I think you can say something like that so blithely because you expect to stumble onto something else just as wonderful just around the next bend in the road. But people are rare perfect unique things and just because everyone really does live a life full of farewells doesn’t mean you shouldn’t at least realize what it really means to say goodbye to something that meant everything. Just because you WILL survive and get over it doesn’t mean you should let it go." — Adam Duritz

"I just think people are complex. It’s no deep thing. I just think there are motivations that you have which come with doubts about those motivations and there are dreams that come true which come with consequences you didn’t think of when you were busy dreaming. You say one thing and you mean another. You love someone but you can’t stand the way that feels so you leave." — Adam Duritz

"It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway." — Sofia Coppola (explaining what Lost In Translation is about)

"It’s about denial — how far you’ll go to deny that something’s really happening because it’s too complicated, too terrifying, too difficult. It’s about me and Anna: The relationship was supposed to be light — we met on vacation — but we got further into it and it became harder and harder. It’s about all the things you go through trying to, sort of squash your feelings, to sort of shut it down, and how much you can hurt other people and yourself by doing that. The people in the song are just continuously telling themselves they don’t feel what they do feel, until the end when it’s too late, and then they realize what they were really, really not ready for was, you know, never being able to see each other again." — Adam Duritz on the story behind the song, Anna Begins

"All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it." — Miranda July

"If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains." — Charles Bukowski