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

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 hole.

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

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

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

I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

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