Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American country singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. It's Not Big It's Large was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at number 2 on the Top Country...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth1 November 1957
CityKlein, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living
I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.
I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.
Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs
Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.
There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.
I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to
Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.