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" 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

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" 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. "

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

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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 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. "

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" Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized. "

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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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