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Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.
Say what you think / Love who you love.
Just like dust, we settle in this town.
Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own
I know not every song has to be a powerful message.
I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire
I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.
If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.
Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.
I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.
I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me
You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.
In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.
I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list.
I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!
Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.
I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.
I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.
I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.