My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device.… — Ryan Adams 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
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 Copy Share Image
If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire… — Ryan Adams 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 think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe… — Ryan Adams Album 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
