The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device.… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of… — 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
Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love… — 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
There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like… — 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 Image
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 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. But it's… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
