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

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

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

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.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

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.

I've been playing music most of my life.

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.

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

Brunettes are full of electricity.

The greatest self is self confident.

This had to be Hell.Well, myHell, and funnily enough, my Hell was in a church, surrounded by people I—either door did—love.

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.

No days off. I'm a workaholic.