About Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter.
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
