Quotes By Lucinda Williams

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've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

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.

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!

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

I'm going to have my moody times.

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.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

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.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

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 trying to get out of my own way.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.