It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. — Ryan Adams Choices Copy Share Image
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams Benefits Copy Share Image
Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows? — Ryan Adams Famous Copy Share Image
Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs. — Ryan Adams Hearing Copy Share Image
When you make a heavy record, there should be a point where you say you don't want to share it, but then… — Ryan Adams Around Copy Share Image
It's like—I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do…I… — Ryan Adams Beach Copy Share Image
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver. — Ryan Adams Gold Copy Share Image
If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic. — Ryan Adams Become Copy Share Image
I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those… — Ryan Adams Boxes Copy Share Image
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting… — Ryan Adams Knows 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 Crafts Copy Share Image
It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to… — Ryan Adams Cardinals Copy Share Image
Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways… — Ryan Adams Critics 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
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
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
I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love… — Ryan Adams Afraid 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 Bunch 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 Asking 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
There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go… — Ryan Adams Again Copy Share Image
What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be… — Ryan Adams Art 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 Amount 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
I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here. — Ryan Adams Being 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 Afternoon Copy Share Image
Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw. — Ryan Adams Aids Copy Share Image
I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this. — Ryan Adams Kissing 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 Asleep 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 Feel 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 Jerk Copy Share Image
Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon — Ryan Adams Button ups Copy Share Image
I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine. — Ryan Adams Life Copy Share Image
'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record. — Ryan Adams Burning Copy Share Image
