173 Quotes by Ryan Adams

The night destroys the sun.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I’m Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

To make a song is a gift, and once it’s done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It’s like a conversation.

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.

A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I’ve never been able to find on any record, but that I’ve always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn’t hearing yet.

When You’re young, you get sad, and you get high.

Not to discount my music, but I’m always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not “valid,” but how important.

A lot of my songs, they’re like puzzle pieces, and there’s just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don’t want to do that.

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live – a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.