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" I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone. "

Kacey Musgraves

My Life

Life

Grow

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" 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 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 see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible. "

" 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. "

Kacey Musgraves

Say

Love

" I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place. "

" 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. "

" I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is. "

" 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. "

" My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars. "

" 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. "

Kacey Musgraves

Think

Radio

" Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. "

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

" 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. "

Kacey Musgraves

Leave

Doing

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

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

Kacey Musgraves

Great

Place

" 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 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. "

" Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring. "

" A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get 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. "

Kacey Musgraves

Give

Want

" When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into. "