65 Quotes by Ray Lamontagne

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

My backstory is so tedious.

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.