Ryan Adams Quotations

I like the fact that this record is not so self-serious.

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.