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" I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that. "

Lucinda 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. "

" I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like. "

Lucinda Williams

Time

Alone

" The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part. "

" I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. "

" I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss? "

" Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them. "

Lucinda Williams

Approach

Just

" I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment. "

" I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way. "

Lucinda Williams

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Own

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

" In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old! "

" I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that. "

" I'm trying to get out of my own way. "

" 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. "

" Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything. "

Lucinda Williams

Think

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" I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. "

" I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that. "

" I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. "

" I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it. "

" I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. "

" We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine. "