I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M. — Ryan Adams

"And Im tired of living here in this hotel, Snow and the rain falling through the sheets. In fact, Im tired of 23rd Street. Strung out like some Christmas lights Out there in the Chelsea night."

"I shouldve died a hundred thousand times, Teetering stoned off the side of a building. Nobody loved me and nobody even tried You cant hang on to something that wont stop moving. Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs."

"Theres something in the way she eases my mind And lays me across the bed till I close my eyes. Stirs me in the morning till I cant ever be satisfied. I leave Carolina every night in my dreams, Like the girls that try to love me that I only leave. Rock me like a baby doll and hold me to your chest, But Im always moving too fast."

"As a man I ain’t never been much for sunny days. I’m as calm as a fruit stand in New York and maybe as strange. But when the color goes out of my eyes, it’s usually the change. But damn, Sam, I love a woman that rains."

"I wouldve held your mothers hand on the day you was born. She runs through my veins like a long black river and rattles my cage like a thunderstorm."

"If I had a reed made of lightning I could blow the sax all night... I dont know where one would acquire a reed made of lightning but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one."