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.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

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

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

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.