Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adamsis an American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, poet and painter. He is best known for his prolific solo career, and as a former member of alternative country band Whiskeytown, with whom he recorded three studio albums. In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released his first solo album, Heartbreaker, to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize. In 2001, Adams released the UK certified-gold Gold, which included the hit single, "New York, New York"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 November 1974
CityJacksonville, NC
CountryUnited States of America
For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"
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.
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.
Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.
Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.
When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.
There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them.
The band got a bad bug on the way back from Japan that just kept wearing us down.
I want to keep him as far away from the real world as possible,
It's a neat community. I'm excited about the growth that's occurring in Little Elm.
It is awesome. They thought we were losing all our starters (from last year), and we come back and we just show them that we all can do it. It doesn't matter who it is.