Kacey Musgraves Quotes

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees,

It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

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?

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.

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

Make lots of noise
Kiss lots of boys
Or kiss lots of girls
If that's something you're into
When the straight and narrow
Gets a little too straight
Roll up a joint (or don't)
Just follow your arrow
Wherever it points.

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.

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

Don't wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

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.

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 feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

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.

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing Country music

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.

Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

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.

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.

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

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.

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

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.

My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.

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.

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

Follow the arrow, wherever it points.

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.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

I like to make people think a little bit.