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.
ADAM DURITZThere’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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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