Quotes from Carly Pearce

I spent so many years acting as my own booking agent and manager, just to get out there and play shows. You have to show you really want it.

I think it's so easy for us to kind of just be robots and do day in and day out and not check in with ourselves, and not just kinda make sure we're okay.

After a show or a long day, there's nothing better than some cozy slippers.

In the beginning, I wasn't quite sure what '29' was. I just knew I needed to get some things off my chest.

I went through some things that I shouldn't have had to go through. But I came out on the other side. I'm not bitter. I'm not jaded.

You never really know when you're going a hundred miles a minute what you're doing to your body.

I loved all kinds of Bluegrass music. Sonya Isaacs was a big influence; she's a Bluegrass Gospel singer, but she's also done a lot in the Country world just from backup and songwriter and as an artist. Also, the Dixie Chicks were a big influence. Just all of those 90s and early 2000s Country voices.

I feel like I needed to grow up. I needed to grow up as a songwriter. I needed to grow up as a singer, a performer. I needed to grow up as a woman.

It's my lifelong dream to be able to do what I'm doing. So it feels unbelievable to be even considered one of the women in country.

I had no backup plan. I wanted to have a music career since I was 5 years old. I know that might be hard to believe, but it's true.

You can say you have faith, you can say you believe in God, but until you feel completely uncomfortable, not knowing where to turn, at your lowest - that is where you have to decide to trust that God's timing is right and that He will show you why you're going through this.

Losing busbee was such a moment of upheaval. He had believed in me... carried me... brought me through everyone getting deals around me... because he knew something I couldn't see: that it would happen.

My mom and I, we have two movies that we watch every year. We watch 'The Family Stone' and we watch 'The Holiday' and that's kind of our thing. We may watch them twice. I always know it's Christmas when my mom and I are on the couch watching that.

It is okay to feel in control one minute and out of control the next. We have to love ourselves fully and give ourselves grace to feel. It is the only way we can truly heal.

My mom and I are really close, and I'm an only child.

A lot of executives simply told me that my sound was dated and wouldn't work, kind of telling me essentially to go away, that my music would never work in that 'bro-country' world. It broke my heart at times, but I also believed strongly in the music.

I try to eat organically.

My life has completely changed. Overnight it changed with 'Every Little Thing.'

You live such a weird life while you're out on the tour. You're in a van or an airplane more than you are anything else.

Patty Loveless is the big influence for me. Loving her music, loving how she wrote songs, loving the kind of songs she cut. A strong woman with true substance to her lyrics, but songs that just felt so good.

Sometimes in the arenas it's hard to really feel that human connection just because you are so removed and so much further away from the crowd.

I got to build a career on signing with a record label that viewed me as a partner and not as an artist who didn't know who she was.

Nobody wants to talk about divorce, especially as a woman under 30.

When you're 29 and divorced, that certainly doesn't sound pretty.