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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Adam Duritz

It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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 feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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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 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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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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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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