"I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness." - Lucinda Williams
"I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did?" - Lucinda Williams
"I don't know if I can achieve this, but I'm sure gonna try!" - Lucinda Williams
"I don't know what it would be like to headline. I would miss the Fillmores and the First Avenues. Those are my favorite places to play, because they've got some personality." - Lucinda Williams
"I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything." - Lucinda Williams
"I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?" - Lucinda Williams
"I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing." - Lucinda Williams
"I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way." - Lucinda Williams
"I grew up in an agnostic household. I was free to do whatever, to choose my path-I've been on a spiritual path all my life-but that includes a lot of different kinds of spirituality." - Lucinda Williams
"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken." - Lucinda Williams
"I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly." - Lucinda Williams
"I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that." - Lucinda Williams
"I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like." - Lucinda Williams
"I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?" - Lucinda Williams
"I really and truly am content with who I am and what I'm doing. It'd just be nice to share my nights with someone. I miss that." - Lucinda Williams
"I started writing more with my voice in mind." - Lucinda Williams
"I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there." - Lucinda Williams
"I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it." - Lucinda Williams
"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena." - Lucinda Williams
"I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it." - Lucinda Williams
"I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment." - Lucinda Williams
"I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone." - Lucinda Williams
"I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that." - Lucinda Williams
"I'm trying to get out of my own way." - Lucinda Williams
"I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny." - Lucinda Williams
"I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people." - Lucinda Williams
"If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end." - Lucinda Williams
"In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!" - Lucinda Williams
"It's hard to analyze your own material." - Lucinda Williams
"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say." - Lucinda Williams
"Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is." - Lucinda Williams
"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness." - Lucinda Williams
"People think that just because I've got a Grammy nomination that I walk around happy all the time, on Cloud 9. But I don't." - Lucinda Williams
"Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets." - Lucinda Williams
"So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight." - Lucinda Williams
"Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything." - Lucinda Williams
"Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in." - Lucinda Williams
"The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job." - Lucinda Williams
"The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me." - Lucinda Williams
"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice." - Lucinda Williams
"We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine." - Lucinda Williams
"We play a lot of theaters, which I don't enjoy as much. It depends on what kind of theater it is. I don't really like the sit-down, no alcohol-allowed-in kind of thing." - Lucinda Williams
"When you listen to Antonio Carlos Jobim's songs, there are really heavy sociopolitical statements in the songs. Gilberto has this beautiful, lilting, almost childlike voice, and yet the lyrics are kind of dark and somber." - Lucinda Williams
"Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?" - Lucinda Williams
"You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process." - Lucinda Williams
"You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready." - Lucinda Williams
