While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver. Ryan Adams More Quotes by Ryan Adams More Quotes From Ryan Adams I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand. Ryan Adams writing littles thinking 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 my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs. Ryan Adams song past thinking I was never much of a bass player. Ryan Adams bass-players bass player On Heartbreaker, I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. Ryan Adams heartbreaker song way Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews. Ryan Adams rocks inspiration hurt Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about. Ryan Adams shows lost people 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 you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day. Ryan Adams notes tomorrow new-day For me, the best thing you can do as a man in loving someone is to do your best, go on that walk, and at the end of that walk be as much of a gentleman as you were in the beginning. Ryan Adams walk best me man 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 permanent. They're not. Ryan Adams i-am things think permanent There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them. Ryan Adams ignore you man time I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way that either heals it or makes me feel like I've risen a thousand miles above it into space, and I'm staring down on it as a little dot. Ryan Adams feel me song people On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic. Ryan Adams myself prove gold way There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do. Ryan Adams place think time world I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it's been crushing to me since I was a kid. It seems to be how I connect. Ryan Adams best me beautiful world