Lucy Dacus Quotes

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

My life is an open pamphlet.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

There's a lot to the story. And there are a lot of things I've learned about myself and about love, and I'm really grateful for the lessons, and I hope I can share that through art. I look for projects that allow me to do that, whether it's music or acting.

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person and how much happier I became, which is really cool for me to hear because I'm proud of myself.

I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Before you can do something you must first be something.