Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adamsis an American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, poet and painter. He is best known for his prolific solo career, and as a former member of alternative country band Whiskeytown, with whom he recorded three studio albums. In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released his first solo album, Heartbreaker, to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize. In 2001, Adams released the UK certified-gold Gold, which included the hit single, "New York, New York"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 November 1974
CityJacksonville, NC
CountryUnited States of America
My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.
I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?
I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.
I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.
The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.
I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.
It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.
Bad nights lead to better days