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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.

Adam Duritz

. 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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Around Band Different Feel Good Make Person
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 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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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking
All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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Dealing Feel Good Important Life People Person Relate
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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Act Anyway Bravery Face Hurt Scare Thing
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
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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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Around Career Reason Song Still Successful Ten Year
If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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Break Change Find Goes Murder One Rhyme Some Sorrow Way
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
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’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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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Early Hear Hollis Brown Need People Person Unbelievable Up
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Daffodil Emotion Myself Pain Patience Wrap
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
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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