There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZBut 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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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