Lucy Dacus Quotes

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.

I met a girl, and two months after we met I wrote 'Nevermind.' And 'Never Go Back' is actually a song I wrote two or three days after the breakup, after a year and a half. Straight continuation of the story.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

'Teenage Dream' was the hardest breakup for me.

I write a lot of sad songs!

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.

I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.

Heartbreak is something which is part of every person.

'Hell Or High Water' was written after the end of a relationship, and I do feel like every Passenger album has the obligatory break-up song.

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.