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" So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight. "
Lucinda Williams
Themselves
Spotlight
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" I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. "
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" I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired. "
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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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Ideas
" I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like. "
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Up
" 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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1960s
Saw
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" Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something. "
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Sometimes
Long Time
Long
" 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. "
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" 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! "
Lucinda Williams
Lying
Old
Say
" I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny. "
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Learn
Power
Trying
" 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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Up
Find
Own
" I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses. "
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Had
Come
Wearing
" I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other. "
Lucinda Williams
Ideas
Memories
Life
" I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that. "
Lucinda Williams
Best
Try
Different
" I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together. "
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Everything
Write
Together
" 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
Me
Think
Best
" I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. "
Lucinda Williams
Myself
Deal
Out
" 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. "
Lucinda Williams
Interesting
Say
Looking
" You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. "
Lucinda Williams
You
Learning
People
" I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it. "
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Come
Talking
Things
" 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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Talking
Day
" Of course, I'm older now. I'm 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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Car
Place
Going
" I'm going to have my moody times. "
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Times
Going
Moody
" 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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Feel
Work
Say
" I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. "
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World
Song
Love
" 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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Writing
Enough
Good
" Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. "
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Real
Poverty
Streets