Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 January 1953
CityLake Charles, LA
CountryUnited States of America
song writing easier
It's easier to write songs when you're single.
appreciate done upbringing
The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
guitar muse empty
When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
praise process criticize
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
song writing together
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
sometimes states vehicle
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.
ghetto emotional thinking
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.
ideas worry inspired
I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.
mom growing-up environment
I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.
writing ideas bullshit
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.
girl song believe
Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.
beautiful genius loser
Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.
song essence car
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.
unrequited-love writing unrequited
Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.