“These things inside me, they repeat like broken recordsSpinning pretty things behind my eyesAnd when I can't look at youI can paint your picture perfectly in my mindAnd when I get oldI'm gonna miss you all the time.”Ryan Adams Friends 29 (2005)
“I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.”Ryan Adams 29 29 (2005)
“When you get the timeSit down and write me a letterWhen you're feeling betterDrop me a lineI wanna know how it all works outI had a feeling we were fading outI didn't know that people faded outThat people faded out so fastI wanna show you all the things I got insideBut you know those parts of me diedJust like us they faded outThey faded out so fastWhen there was love enough left to fix itBut there it is”Ryan Adams Sun Also Sets
“It's not very fashionable nowadays to have a philosophy that demands a lot of life. I tend to be drawn to people who are emotional - now they'd be called 'crazy'. Pollock, Jasper Johns, Toulouse-Lautrec. People said, 'They're off their nut!' Was Faulkner off his nut because he stayed in his house for eight months at a time writing books, and then you'd find him drunk up in a tree, making out with some old black woman? I think that's fuckin' great!”Ryan Adams Blender (August/September 2001)