Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I was living in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I didn't really know how you would become a singer. I didn't even think that I could do it. I didn't even dream about it. But when I was 12, it was that year where I got tall, boys got cute, everything was weird. Then my parents split up on top of that, so it was a big year of change for me. "

Related Quotes:

" We had three cows and a goat. People from New York and L.A. are like, 'Oh my gosh, that's a farm!' But people in Tennessee are like, 'That's not a farm.' I've never milked a cow or anything like that. "

Kelsea Ballerini

Three

New

New York

" I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing. "

" I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes. "

" Always wash your face before you go to bed - skin care is key. "

" The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music. "

" I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.' "

" When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15. "

" I just want to be real and who I am. That's something I'd feel comfortable with any little girl looking up to, so that's who I try to be. "

" Honestly, I'm such a shoe girl. I like to save money, and I like to spend money on shoes. "

" Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song. "

" I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit. "

" I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club. "

" I really want people to know I'm a songwriter. "

" Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me. "

Kelsea Ballerini

Artist

Being

" Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn't gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch 'Spongebob.' "

Kelsea Ballerini

Stress

Sometimes

" For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah! "

" I've always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer. "

" I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both. "

" There's value in being a normal person. "

" Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories. "

" I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time. "

" My first artist bus was Jason Aldean's old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the couches. It was such an absolute dude bus. "

" The first album is an introduction, and when people listen to it top to bottom, I want them to know me. "

" I really like food. Honestly, anytime I have time off, I binge-watch Netflix and eat chicken tenders. That's my guilty pleasure. Separate or together! "