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

Adam Duritz

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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