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.
ADAM DURITZPeople really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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 thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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