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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

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Lucinda Williams
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 26
Composer
Entrepreneur
Music Arranger
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Lucinda Gayl Williams
Lucinda Gayle Williams
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Real
Writing
Fantasize
Things
Relationships
People
Fantasy
Trouble
Create
Free

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I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.
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I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.
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It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
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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.
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Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
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I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.
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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.
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I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
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Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.
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I started writing more with my voice in mind.
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You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
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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.
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The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.
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The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.
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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?
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I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
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You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.
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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
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