Ryan Adams

“I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.”

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

“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.”

“People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.”

“Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs.”

“When I was in high school, I remember, on my Converse sneakers, on one side, I had written 'Social Distortion,' and on the other side, I had written 'Guns N' Roses.'”

“When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.”

“If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.”