Lucinda Williams quotes

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone. (Lucinda Williams)
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
Lucinda Williams
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
Lucinda Williams
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Lucinda Williams
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.
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
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I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
Lucinda Williams
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
Lucinda Williams
I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.
Lucinda Williams
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
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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. (Lucinda Williams)
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
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.
Lucinda Williams
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
Lucinda Williams
I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.
Lucinda Williams
I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.
Lucinda Williams
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
Lucinda Williams
I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
Lucinda Williams
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
Lucinda Williams
I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
Lucinda Williams
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say. (Lucinda Williams)
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.
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So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
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I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Lucinda Williams