Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

by Lucinda Williams

The “ghosts in the wind that blow through my life”—many of them I didn’t even know about until much later, but they followed me nonetheless.

To me, this is the essence of the blues. It’s about coming to grips with your experiences and learning something from them.

all I can do is write about my feelings and the world’s feelings, and I think maybe this is what makes my music unique.

The blues guys taught me to be irrepressible, or encouraged me to honor my irrepressible streak.

I do believe that music was my therapy for dealing with many of the traumas I suffered as a child,