Quotes from Ryan Adams

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

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.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Some things were made to be felt

Note to self: don't die.

I'm tired of living here in this hotel, snow and rain falling through the sheets. In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street, strung out like some Christmas lights out there in the Chelsea night

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

They carved your name into the stone and then they put it in the ground, I run my fingers through the grooves When no one's around

Where do you go when you're lonely? Where do you go when you're blue? Where do you go when you're lonely? I'll follow you When the stars go blue.

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

Come pick me up

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

I'm a goofball. I'm always changing my mind.

I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way that either heals it or makes me feel like I've risen a thousand miles above it into space, and I'm staring down on it as a little dot.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.