Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 January 1953
CityLake Charles, LA
CountryUnited States of America
night play arena
I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.
writing stuff firsts
I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
song writing good-enough
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.
writing voice mind
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
sweet song world
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
writing thinking guitar
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.
people trying different
I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
song writing easier
It's easier to write songs when you're single.
appreciate done upbringing
The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
guitar muse empty
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.
praise process criticize
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
song writing together
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
sometimes states vehicle
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.
ghetto emotional thinking
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.