Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most… — Ryan Adams Bad 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… — Ryan Adams Aware 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 Bass 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… — Ryan Adams Cutting 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… — Ryan Adams Blue 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… — Ryan Adams Appeals 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… — Ryan Adams Allowing 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… — Ryan Adams Communication Copy Share Image
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball. — Ryan Adams Like 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… — Ryan Adams Blues Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that… — Ryan Adams Able Copy Share Image
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 Feels Copy Share Image
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 Attention Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I remember, on my Converse sneakers, on one side, I had written 'Social Distortion,' and on… — Ryan Adams High school 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 Always thinking Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of living here in this hotel, snow and rain falling through the sheets. In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street,… — Ryan Adams Christmas lights Copy Share Image
I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people… — Ryan Adams Badass Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records. — Ryan Adams Fans 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 Can do Copy Share Image
“They carved your name into the stone and then they put it in the ground, I run my fingers through the grooves… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to… — Ryan Adams Christmas Copy Share Image