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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.
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. 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.
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
All my songs are where I am.
I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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 ...
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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.
A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. 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. 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.
For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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.
Time and time again I can't please myself.
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.
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. 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.
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. 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. 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.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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.
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.
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.
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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.
I've been playing music most of my life.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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.
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.
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.
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.