My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.
— Miranda Lambert
I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.
I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.
I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.
I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.
I don't want to get pigeonholed.
I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.
I had a great childhood.
In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.
My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
I had to work at everything.
I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.
A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.
People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!
I didn't go to parties or anything like that.
I have seven rescue dogs.
The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.
I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.
I have a pretty good ear.
I started writing songs at 17.
Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.
I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'
Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.
My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.
Country music has always sort of been country music.
I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.
I didn't do that many crazy things.
I'm not a girl anymore.
I think I don't have as much to prove now.
I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.
I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.
My family is awesome.
I just am who I am.
I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.
I do appreciate every single dollar I earn.
I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.
I sucked in school.
I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.
Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.
