But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

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.

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

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

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

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