Lucy Dacus Quotes

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

I think my music is so personal that it lets people in. And they identify with me more because of that, you know, so it's like my story; it's who I am as a person.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.