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

Kacey Musgraves

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

Kacey Musgraves

" When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it. "

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" In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Kacey Musgraves

" I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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