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 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
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
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 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
Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the… — 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
When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or… — 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
I'm like an '80s kid. I was born in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s kicked in, I'm listening to Dead… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't… — 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
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
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
For me, what I learned is that I went for a long time without making music when I was married, and I… — 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
