Quotes By Lucinda Williams

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 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.

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.

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

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.