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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.

Adam Duritz

I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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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I 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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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