You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. Lucinda Williams More Quotes by Lucinda Williams More Quotes From Lucinda Williams 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 good-enoughwritingsong I started writing more with my voice in mind. Lucinda Williams voicemindwriting I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. Lucinda Williams excessivenessstatementstrying 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 breakupinspirationsong I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. Lucinda Williams songsweetworld Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in. Lucinda Williams vehiclestatessometimes I'm trying to get out of my own way Lucinda Williams my-owntryingway Any time there's a major change, whether it's going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city, a death - that usually provides a catalyst for an explosion of creativity. Lucinda Williams creativitycitiesmoving I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world. Lucinda Williams strugglemeanworld I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing. Lucinda Williams teenagerwritingsong I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out. Lucinda Williams moodstuffwriting Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do. Lucinda Williams dreamwritingsong I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles. Lucinda Williams battlesakepeople It's easier to write songs when you're single. Lucinda Williams easierwritingsong Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love. Lucinda Williams unrequitedunrequited-lovewriting Of course, Im older now. Im 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 caressencesong Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser. Lucinda Williams losergeniusbeautiful When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point. Lucinda Williams nicestrongsong I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve. Lucinda Williams guitarwritingthinking I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it. Lucinda Williams humanitarianpoliticalpeople
