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I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

- Lucinda Williams

Love, Song, Old, Intonation

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

Snake, Concept, Read, Pentecostal

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

My Life, Wheels, Going, Different Place

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

- Lucinda Williams

Process, Deal, I Write, Therapeutic

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

Living, Going, Tossing, Just Looking

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

Little Things, Think, Last, Scraps

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

- Lucinda Williams

Song, Few, Picked, Organic

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

- Lucinda Williams

Go, Pretty, Wrote, Organic

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

Love, Easy, Songwriters, Breakup

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

- Lucinda Williams

Always, Other, Been, Everyday Life

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

- Lucinda Williams

See, Other, Works, Different Things

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

- Lucinda Williams

Song, Sometimes, Might, Grab

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

Singing, Bed, Some, Microphone

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

Trust, Some, Okay, Instincts

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

Process, Burn, Happen, In The End

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

Voice, Perfect, Jazz, Worried

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

- Lucinda Williams

Love, Other, Than, Unrequited

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

Been, Anybody, Tortured, 24 Hours

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

Other, Supportive, Very, Household

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

- Lucinda Williams

Peter, Mary, Saw, Paul

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

- Lucinda Williams

She, Streets, Deceptive, Sade

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

- Lucinda Williams

Play, Rather, One Night, Nights

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

- Lucinda Williams

Appreciate, More, Separate, Upbringing

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

- Lucinda Williams

Learn, My Own, Tap, Corny

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

Through, Over, Stepped, Bulk

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

- Lucinda Williams

My Life, Trade, Mean, Complain

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

- Lucinda Williams

Themselves, Few, Few People, Spotlight

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

Sneakers, Songwriting, Some, T-Shirt

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

Broken, Song, Been, Good Song

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

- Lucinda Williams

Go, I Write, Them, Fits

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