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.
ADAM DURITZLosing 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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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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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.
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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