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.
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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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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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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