Quotes By Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

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.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

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

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

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.

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

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 have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

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

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 going to have my moody times.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I started writing more with my voice in mind.