Lucinda Williams Quotes

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit adolescence around 14, I sorta liked girls, so drums became more of a passion, and I started playing in bands.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

I started writing songs at age 15.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.

I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.

When I was twelve, I fell in love with Candice Bergen.

I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a lot of people, but it was basically childhood memory.

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school.