I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
I don’t sing country music because I’m not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it’s the most beautiful kind of music there is.
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
When you come close to selling out, reconsider.
I don’t go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I’m just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.
I’m a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.
I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.
And for the past 10 years Ive been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, theyre all about that bottom line. So its nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.
And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.
And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we’re on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
I’m not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don’t ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.
I want to reach as many people as I can.
I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy’s girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he’d walk past my room and I was listening to those records.
Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there’s a routine going on that I’m not a part of, so that can be difficult.
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
And I think that’s a singer’s job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There’s an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.