You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
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… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share
