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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

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