I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I’ve-just-had-it-I’m-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I’m-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can’t imagine what it would take to do that. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn’t know if they were good enough yet or anything. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
I can speak for most songwriters – those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
Of course, I’m older now. I’m in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for ‘Car Wheels’ or ‘Essence’ or whatever. Different things were going on. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
The way I look at life, whatever I’m doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren’t worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
If you come into success too soon, you’ll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you’ll be happier with yourself in the end. Lucinda Williams Read Quote
