Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright. — Ryan Adams Forever Copy Share Image
In the three years that nobody heard music from me, I made more music than I've ever made. — Ryan Adams Me Copy Share Image
You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are… — Ryan Adams Army 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
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do… — Ryan Adams Abstract 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 Career 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 Art work Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm.… — Ryan Adams Apologizing Copy Share Image
It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be… — Ryan Adams Bits Copy Share Image
I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside… — Ryan Adams Agendas Copy Share Image
My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this… — Ryan Adams Behinds 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 Focus 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 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
I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to… — Ryan Adams Able 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 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 Asshole Copy Share Image
For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and… — Ryan Adams Art 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
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 Chords Copy Share Image
I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee… — Ryan Adams Cigarette Copy Share Image
You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing… — Ryan Adams Developing Copy Share Image
I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it's been crushing to me since… — Ryan Adams Beautiful Copy Share Image
On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did… — Ryan Adams Ate 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
The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more… — Ryan Adams Cooking Copy Share Image
Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid… — Ryan Adams Discounts 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
I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can… — Ryan Adams Happens Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar… — Ryan Adams Crazy Copy Share Image
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed… — Ryan Adams Book Copy Share Image
I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying… — Ryan Adams Bus 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 Body love 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 Born 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 Beautiful 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 Enough Copy Share Image
That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars,… — Ryan Adams Communicate Copy Share Image
I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what… — Ryan Adams Be careful Copy Share Image
It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before… — Ryan Adams Different 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 About Copy Share Image
