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 DURITZThe 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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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