Ryan Adams Quotes

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

Bad nights lead to better days

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet.

Some things were made to be felt

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.

I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

The night destroys the sun

Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.