I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try.… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
I am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball. — Ryan Adams Copy Share
I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head. — Ryan Adams Copy Share
A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing like I'm in a movie. — Ryan Adams Copy Share
