Quotes from Lari White

I think I'm the last person on the planet to use the internet, but I'm re-engaging my fans through Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, doing the whole social media scene.

I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little at a time.

I want to be able to take singles, serve them up to radio on a silver platter and just have them smoke - just obvious great-sounding, great-feeling radio singles.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.

I kept getting these little messages through friends: 'Chuck Cannon thinks you are really cute.' And, 'Would you go out with him?' It was just like high school. It was really funny.

They love soul music in the U.K.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it often happens for the better.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

One of the things I liked so much about the women artists I saw in Nashville was that they were appreciated for their music and their talent, not because they were wearing skimpy outfits and showing a lot of skin.

Of course, I love the arenas; there's a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there's something that's very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you're almost getting to know everyone in the audience.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I would love to go to England, Europe and especially Australia. I have a real fantasy about playing in Australia; I would love to get over there.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

Looking back, I wonder where my head was at on some of the last few albums, and I know I was just doing what I thought I needed to at the time.

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.