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

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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.