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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.

Adam Duritz

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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 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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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When 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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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