Quotes By Lucinda Williams

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

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

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

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.

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

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 write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

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!

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

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 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.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

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.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

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

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

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