Top 70 Lucinda Williams Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “As it turns out, now is the moment you’ve been waiting for.”

— Lucinda Williams

2. “The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.”

— Lucinda Williams

3. “I’m trying to get out of my own way.”

— Lucinda Williams

4. “Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.”

— Lucinda Williams

5. “You can’t be afraid to deal with your demons. You’ve got to go there to be able to write.”

— Lucinda Williams

6. “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

7. “I’m an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.”

— Lucinda Williams

8. “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

9. “I’m trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.”

— Lucinda Williams

10. “Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.”

— Lucinda Williams

11. “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

12. “I don’t mean to complain. I wouldn’t trade my life for anything.”

— Lucinda Williams

13. “I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I’ve been spending more time alone than I’d like.”

— Lucinda Williams

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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.”

— Lucinda Williams

17. “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

18. “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

19. “I am trying to get right with God. I’m sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.”

— Lucinda Williams

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “I can speak for most songwriters – those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.”

— Lucinda Williams

25. “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

26. “People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.”

— Lucinda Williams

27. “You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready.”

— Lucinda Williams

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.”

— Lucinda Williams

32. “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

33. “What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I’m grateful to have.”

— Lucinda Williams

34. “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

35. “Sade’s stuff is real deceptive. She’s got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.”

— Lucinda Williams

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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

39. “I’d rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.”

— Lucinda Williams

40. “I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.”

— Lucinda Williams

41. “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

42. “I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.”

— Lucinda Williams

43. “So few people are truly themselves when they’re in the spotlight.”

— Lucinda Williams

44. “The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it’s done for me.”

— Lucinda Williams

45. “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

46. “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

47. “I’m just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.”

— Lucinda Williams

48. “I mean, whose songs don’t focus on tragedy and loss?”

— Lucinda Williams

49. “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

50. “Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.”

— Lucinda Williams