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" 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. "

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" I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man. "

Kacey Musgraves

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" 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. "

" 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

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" 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. "

" 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 had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it. "

Kacey Musgraves

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" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to make people think a little bit. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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

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" I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "