144 Quotes by Rodney Crowell

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.

I'm under-appreciated, of course.

I was an only child.

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.

To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive from the universe, and I'm very much aware of that. I get to do exactly what I want to do.