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I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Guitar
Taken
Voice
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Broken
Broken Heart
Song
Writing
Good Heart Your
Good Song
Whose
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I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Teenager
Writing
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I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Battle
People
Sake
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Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Sometimes
States
Vehicle
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I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Mean
Struggle
World
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The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Alzheimer's
Littles
Way
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I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Holiday
Singing
Sitting Down
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I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Mood
Stuff
Writing
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Commitment
Fascinated
Pentecostal
Snakes
Strikes
Concept
Handling
Snake
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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
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Independent
People
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Helping
Independent
Supportive
People Way Ideas
Literate
Spoke
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Of course, Im older now. Im 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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Essence
Song
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When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Empty
Guitar
Muse
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Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Song
Writing
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Different Place
Different Things
Essence
Wheels
Life Car My Life
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I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Feelings
Littles
Years
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Doormat
Just Being
Looks
Trying
Bulk
Material
Stepped
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I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Nashville
Rocks
Thinking
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Sad
Mean
Might
Painful
Talking
Anybody Else
Tortured
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Change
Bridges
Okay
Song
Thinking
Instincts
Figured
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Aspect
Bed
Lying
Sexual
Journalists
Microphone
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Success
Congratulations
Ends
Finished
Naturally
Burn
Happier
In The End
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Coffee
Jeans
Sneakers
Songwriting
Writing
Time I Am Day
Time Day I Am
First Thing
Mode
Throw
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Interesting
World
Just Looking
Tossing
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What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
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War
Ears
Eye
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There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Bullshit
Ideas
Writing
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Little Things
Paper
Scraps
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I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
People
Real
Writing
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I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Fantasy
Me Free People
Fantasize
Real Problem
Relationships
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Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Self
Song
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Any time there's a major change, whether it's 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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Cities
Creativity
Moving
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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?
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Work
Mean
Song
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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.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Jazz
Perfect
Singers
Sitting
Song
Voice
Worried
Blues
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People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
People
Thinking
Writing
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It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Long
Thinking
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The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Bible
Generally
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I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Pockets
Writing
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Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Believe
Song
Writing
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I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Cat
Sleep
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I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Guitar
Thinking
Writing
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There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over and over again, or heard about. People would ask me about it, but they kind of knew the answer. It would be this ongoing question: "Your fans are wondering, now that you're married, are you still going to be able to write songs?" I'm serious! I would get asked that!
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
People
Song
Writing
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I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Emotional
Ghetto
Thinking
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When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.
Lucinda Williams / Singer-Songwriter
Nice
Song
Strong
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