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It's easier to write songs when you're single.
Lucinda Williams
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Lucinda Williams
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 26
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Entrepreneur
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Singer-Songwriter
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Lucinda Gayl Williams
Lucinda Gayle Williams
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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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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 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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What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.
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So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
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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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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
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What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
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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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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 write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.
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I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
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