Top 32 Quotes by Ray LaMontagne

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I'm a very emotional person.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.