Lucinda Williams Quotes

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I view making records as a journey.

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.