10/18/2011: Music: Interview: Ryan Adams - The AV Club

Some Highlights:

I don’t know, because it’s this one long, never-ending story of me being a record collector, being a metal enthusiast. My weird side effect of that is that I play acoustic guitar and write these songs. It’s as weird to me now that I do what I do as it ever has been. It’s sort of like, “Wow, I’m still writing these kinds of songs. This is wild.” And then, I’m still listening to fucking Satyricon, you know what I mean? I get a fuckin’ boner listening to Dark Medieval Times. I get a musical boner that’s in the shape of an inverted cross. [Laughs.] I’m fucking down for it. But then I go to my songs, and I write these fuckin’ acoustic songs about this stuff. In my weird mind, it’s sort of like, “Maybe this stuff belongs… It’s the kind of music they would play in the woods outside of Mordor.” [Laughs.] That’s what it is to me. It really isn’t anything more than that. At times, I’ve over-described it, and I bought into the fucking interviews when I was younger. Like, “Yeah, this shit is totally meaningful.” [Laughs.]  - Ryan Adams

“Last time I was here, this shit was suckin’ hard / It isn’t suckin’ hard anymore / I got rid of my David Coverdale-fuckin’-second-Whitesnake-album haircut / and all my backstage passes to the Ratt Infestation tour lyin’ on the floor.” - Ryan Adams

The preparation of what I’m doing takes a shitload longer than a person to just listen to it through once, and then start jive-turkeying on the Internet. Because the Internet is an immediate thing, but you can’t fucking write an album on the Internet. So, to me, it’s a virtual meal, and you can’t virtually taste shit. It’s a false experience, when I see the reviews of something that I’ve done, to [only have had] the record for a day. So my records go into my back catalog—my back catalog sells more than anything—and then people can just go to the back catalog. It’s always there; it’s like canned goods. When they’re hungry, they can go and get it, and there it is. It’s there for them.  - Ryan Adams

“It’s not a ‘Go to the beach’ record, but it’s like, ‘Let’s go out at night and let’s fuckin’ be werewolves of chaos in New York.’” - Ryan Adams

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I fucking love Ryan Adams, he’s a fucking rockandroll god of pain and love. And fuck he sounds like a crazy bastard and I mean that in the best way. He talks here about idiots on the internet who are full of negativity but the the worst I ever heard of was some jerk was saying that happiness ruined Ryan and that the guy(girl?) wished that Ryan was still on drugs and his wife (Mandy Moore) would leave him so his music would be good again. What a selfish asshole.