Lucy Dacus

When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if…

— Lucy Dacus

Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not…

— Lucy Dacus

The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the…

— Lucy Dacus

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write…

— Lucy Dacus

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did…

— Lucy Dacus

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And…

— Lucy Dacus

I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.

— Lucy Dacus

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or…

— Lucy Dacus

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

— Lucy Dacus

I was always taught to be grateful, and so the question came early: What is there to be grateful for? Why is…

— Lucy Dacus

I really enjoy navigating the business aspect of having a band, and there is a great amount of instinct. You don't wanna…

— Lucy Dacus

I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're…

— Lucy Dacus

In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it…

— Lucy Dacus

I'm never writing as a character.

— Lucy Dacus

There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to…

— Lucy Dacus

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's…

— Lucy Dacus

It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the…

— Lucy Dacus

When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen…

— Lucy Dacus

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to…

— Lucy Dacus

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I…

— Lucy Dacus

I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I…

— Lucy Dacus

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and…

— Lucy Dacus

That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women.

— Lucy Dacus

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so…

— Lucy Dacus

I can't imagine being in a tour bus. It would be nice, but I think it costs $30,000 a week to rent.…

— Lucy Dacus