Nate Ruess during fun.’s performance of Walking the Dog at the mtvU Woodie Awards on March 15, 2012.
PETER: Tom is talented, Tom is tender, Tom is beautiful. Tom is…Tom is a mystery. Tom is not a nobody. Tom has secrets he doesn’t want to tell me, and I wish he would. Tom has nightmares; that’s not a good thing. Tom has someone to love him; that is a good thing. Tom is crushing me.
Why do you let me stay here, all by myself?
Why don’t you come and play here; I’m just sitting on the shelf. (x)
“This discrepancy between the way I imagine things unfolding and how they actually happen is most dramatic when I overestimate my ability to perform a pointless feat of athleticism. I’ll walk past a low-hanging branch and be struck with an irresistible desire to see if I can jump up and touch it with my face. I’ll see something heavy lying on the ground and suddenly need to know if I can pick it up. There are absolutely no tangible benefits to doing these things, but the consequences are often significant.”
“I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.”
