Lucinda Williams Quotes

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

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

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.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

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

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.

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.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.

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.

The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

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.

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

Of course, Im older now. Im 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 have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

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

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

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

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

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

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.

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

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