Lucinda Williams Quotes

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

I am not a genre-based artist.

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.