Lucinda Williams

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

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I'm a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out.