Lucinda Williams Quotes

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.