Lucy Dacus Quotes
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A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.
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I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.
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I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.
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Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.
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I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.
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I would not say that my relationships are becoming shallow; if anything, some of them are really being tested in a way that I'm so thankful for my friends that call me and still want to talk.
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
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It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.
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There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.
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I really believe in hopefulness and respect people that are hopeful. I think I'm at my best when I think hopefully.
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Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.
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The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.
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I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.
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I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
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You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.
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There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
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My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.
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When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your age as well, media is the third parent that you ever have. So I think about that a lot, what visual imagery is teaching us, and media in general having a huge impact.
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I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.
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I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.