Book Quote by Ryan Adams

I was never much of a bass player.

— Ryan Adams

Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would…

— Ryan Adams

I am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are…

— Ryan Adams

I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.

— Ryan Adams

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. But it's…

— Ryan Adams

A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to,…

— Ryan Adams

Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I…

— Ryan Adams

The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and…

— Ryan Adams

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the…

— Ryan Adams

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other…

— Ryan Adams

I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.

— Ryan Adams

I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.

— Ryan Adams