I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZI 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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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