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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

Adam Duritz

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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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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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