It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

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

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