Top 51 Quotes by Lucinda Williams

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.