Ryan Adams Quotes

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

I can speak for everybody in saying we've all been through a breakup to where you didn't want it to be over.

I think, for other people who have lost someone and have loved again, it's a beautiful thing. But it's just not really on my horizon.

'You Broke Up With Me' was fun yet definitely addressed an inner emotion of mine.

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

In the wake of a failed relationship, I'm often flooded with if-onlys.

Everybody has been broken up with. Everybody has broken up with somebody.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

Everything I loved became everything I've lost.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. . . . I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope