Ryan Adams Quotes

I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. And everyone's pretty similar. I think if you're in the showbusiness, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The movie is in my head and that's the movie. But I'd be crazy to not be flexible. I think because I have the movie in my head, I can be flexible. I know what's going to work and not work and I know, generally, what I can change and bend and have the movie still work.

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

If you think I'm crazy, keep going the way you're going and watch what God does.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Similarly, I think I'm lucky that I've never had a crisis about whether the only reason I'm successful is because I'm crazy hot. It's not something that crosses my mind.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.