144 Quotes by Rodney Crowell

So much of inspiration comes from collaboration with other musicians.

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative.

I admired Mary's work very much. From the time someone gave me 'The Liars' Club,' I immediately went into a world where I grew up. And I remember, when I finished the book, I actually thought, 'You know what, I need to write songs with her.'

I don't think that 'The Weight of the World' is all about politics. It's like, how the environment and how the natural topography of this planet would ever fall into a political division, debate, just leaves me confused.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.