Quotes from Maddie Marlow

We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

The fact that we're young females and our voices are being heard loud and clear is really, really special to both of us.

Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.

We have made such great friends at country radio. I think they love the honesty of 'Fly' and how raw and vulnerable it is.

I will say, as southern women, there is a southern way of life that inspires a lot of music. I can see why that's a common thread through music, but the best part about country is it's about real life. It's not about this glamorous Lamborghini, walking around with gold necklaces, all that stuff.

It's such a fun experience getting to kind of create something from nothing with your best friend.

'Girl In A Country Song' was uptempo, rockin', and such a bold song.

Being bold and standing our ground is important, and making sure you don't allow people to run all over you.

For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it told me to slide my sugar shaker over.' If any guy spoke to us the way those country songs spoke to women, it would not be good for that guy. I would probably punch him in the face.

We just feel so blessed, like God picked us two goobers to do this crazy thing and speak up for people that don't have a voice and give them something to hang onto. If we've done that for one person, I think we've done our job.

At 15 we were going back and forth to Nashville every weekend while we were still going to school.

'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'

When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like 'Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.

We've been blessed with an incredible team behind us - Scott Borchetta and everybody at Dot Records. They're not afraid of taking chances, and we aren't either, so it is the dream team we've got behind us.

You have this fairy tale of 'life on your own.' It's so awesome. Until the apartment floods, or something happens, and your go-to people aren't there.

We've always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn't necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.

We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she's coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.

I have a really weird thing with my dreams. I've had vivid dreams in the past that actually came true days after the dream.

Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it's wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.

We left our homes and moved to Nashville as teenagers, and suddenly, we were on our own. We knew all we wanted to do in the world was write and sing... and the only way that would happen would be to jump, but you still get scared or sure you've done a dumb thing.

There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.

We wrote 'Fly' in such a vulnerable place where we weren't sure if we had what it took or we would ever make it. Now to have that song on country radio and have our fans singing it back is just wild, because we remember that exact moment, feeling that way.

'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way to put it is, if there's a little girl in the audience, and she's looking at us, I want her parents to feel comfortable with her admiring us and looking up to us.