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.
ADAM DURITZYou 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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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 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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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. 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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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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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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