Quotes by Ryan Adams

I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

I'm like an '80s kid. I was born in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s kicked in, I'm listening to Dead Kennedys, but I'm also listening to Simple Minds.

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

In the three years that nobody heard music from me, I made more music than I've ever made.

When you make a heavy record, there should be a point where you say you don't want to share it, but then maybe you come around.

I was an earnest young man who just wanted to make music.

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