Chely Wright Quotes

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

I could kiss you in the rain forever
Turn all your pain to pleasure
Fill up all your days with sunlight
Make the passion last every night
Give you my every possesion
Make you my only obsession
Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above
But I could never love you enough

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do
to know God and to share God.

It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.