Quotes from Ashley McBryde

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

Love songs are all about how I'll move a mountain for you and I'll never hurt your feelings. I've never been given a mountain, and if you love me, you should hurt my feelings sometimes. If I walk outside looking ugly in that shirt, you don't love me if you don't hurt my feelings a little bit and tell me.

It's all been guerrilla warfare trying to get my name out there.

When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.

Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it.

You don't change country music; it changes you.

Country music is - can be - a loving industry.

You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

I have a soul the devil wouldn't buy.

If you've ever been in a bar with a bunch of old sailors and see a guy that has an eagle tattooed across his chest, that guy has seen some stuff.

I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.

When you see a chick that's not the skinniest girl in the room, covered in tattoos, you go, 'That girl wants to stick it to the man.' But we don't give a damn about the man. At all. We just want to make music.

You have the most fun, and love is best, when it's just wrong enough to feel good.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries.

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.

I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'