I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time..

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 ….

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage..

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you..

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care..

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last..

Being in a band is about making the band the priority..

People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band..

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….

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.".

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a….

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some succes….

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame..

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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 t….

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….

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 ….

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.