Words matter. These are the best Lucinda Williams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am trying to get right with God. I’m sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Sade’s stuff is real deceptive. She’s got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
I love Emmylou Harris’s version of my song, ‘Sweet Old World.’ Her intonation is great.
I’m going to have my moody times.
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I’ve had some journalists say it sounds like I’m lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don’t always know how to get there.
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn’t think they were good enough.
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren’t worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
I’m just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.
I’m fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.
I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I’ve been spending more time alone than I’d like.
I would worry if I wasn’t coming up with ideas, if I wasn’t inspired.
I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.
I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I’ve-just-had-it-I’m-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I’m-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can’t imagine what it would take to do that.
I’m trying to get out of my own way.
I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
It’s really about living in your head… just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
I’m not just a doormat. I’m not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it’s about trying to find some strength through that.
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
I mean, whose songs don’t focus on tragedy and loss?
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
Just because I’m talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn’t mean that I’m sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
I don’t mean to complain. I wouldn’t trade my life for anything.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
