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
Lucinda Williams quotes about
speaking
Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?
begin begun breaking city deal dealing grew heart loss mother
I can't begin to tell you how much my heart is breaking with what's going on in Louisiana. I haven't even begun to be able to deal with he loss of my mother, and now I'm dealing with the loss of the city my mother grew up in.
songs
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
grab might time
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
bed believe deeply faith far folk kinds nails people record religious sleeping snake statement
I was just making a statement about how far people will go to their faith . . . like sleeping on a bed of nails or snake handling. Those kinds of things show how deeply people believe in God. So to me, this record is like religious folk art. It's kind of my statement.
togetherness feels
I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.
years feelings littles
I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.
ideas interesting world
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
night play arena
I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.
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.
unrequited-love writing unrequited
Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
dad writing sleep
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.
rocks long way
It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)
trying just-being looks
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.