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The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

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
Inspirational
Men
Motorcycle
Poet
Perfect

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I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.
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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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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
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It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.
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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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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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I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
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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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What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.
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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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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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The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
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I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
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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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First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
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When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
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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 usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
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