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I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

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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It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.
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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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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.
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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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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
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I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.
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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 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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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
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So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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It's easier to write songs when you're single.
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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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