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.

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

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

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.

I've been playing music most of my life.