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.
ADAM DURITZWhen 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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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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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