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

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.

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

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

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.

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 success, and it all goes away.

All my songs are where I am.