Quotes from Aubrie Sellers

To be honest, when you grow up in the music business, people heard me sing from a young age, and you get offered development deals and things like that.

So much of the music I love is polarizing. People might either hate it or love it, but they remember it because it was different. That means it was pushing buttons and not just following trends.

I'm a very friendly, smiley person.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

Listening to 'Raising Sand' was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.

I grew up in the entertainment industry, and I think being around that gave me a different perspective on people and what's real and what's fake. I think about that a lot, and it comes out in my songs.

My voice is very country, and my songwriting is very country.

Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country artist. To know your heroes have played here is kind of crazy.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

I didn't sign a record deal; I didn't do any of that. I made my record independently, and I went out and hit the road in a van.

'Sit Here and Cry' was one of the first songs I wrote with that overdramatic sarcastic dry sense of humor, which is why the energy of the song doesn't necessarily reflect the subject matter.

I love narrative videos, but sometimes I think they can limit a listener's experience of a song.

I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what I try to do.

What really excites me is the production. I get in there and change a lot of stuff.