“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
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball. — Ryan Adams Comics Copy Share Image
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. — 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 Mind Copy Share Image
Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
In the three years that nobody heard music from me, I made more music than I've ever made. — Ryan Adams 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 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 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 am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we… — 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.… — Ryan Adams 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 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
For me, the best thing you can do as a man in loving someone is to do your best, go on that… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way… — Ryan Adams Energy 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 Body 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 Big companies Copy Share Image
I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it… — Ryan Adams Crafts Copy Share Image
Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like… — Ryan Adams Ability 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 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 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 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
Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw. — Ryan Adams 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 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 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
Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon — Ryan Adams Button ups 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
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 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
