Quotes by Lucinda Williams

“Could tell a lie but my heart would know.”

“I grew up around writers. And its all about attention to detail.”

“I just like to kiss and hug people! Thats what I do! Im physical!”

“Any time theres a major change, whether its going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city, a death -- that usually provides a catalyst for an explosion of creativity.”

“I was just making a statement about how far people will go to their faith . . . like sleeping on a bed of nails or snake handling. Those kinds of things show how deeply people believe in God. So to me, this record is like religious folk art. Its kind of my statement.”

“Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”

“Yall have made us so comfortable that were going to do a couple of new songs,”

“I cant begin to tell you how much my heart is breaking with whats going on in Louisiana. I havent even begun to be able to deal with he loss of my mother, and now Im dealing with the loss of the city my mother grew up in.”

“Theres this process that comes about in writing a song where you just stop and see where it can go. Generally, a song will stay with the same idea. I might be thinking about a particular person, for instance. Then it will kind of go from there. And maybe by the end of the song, it will become something more universal.”

“Weve done about a half-dozen of these shows together over the years, and from the first time, it seemed special. It felt comfortable to me, because I was used to sitting around with dad and some of his writer cronies in the living room, playing songs and him reading a couple of poems. I have fond memories of those evenings when wed be sitting around and I would be asked to play. I might play a Hank Williams song or something like that, and hed talk about the time he met Hank Williams.”

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Just because Im talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesnt mean that Im sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.