Quotes from Ashley McBryde

The thing about bikers and truckers is they're just regular folks, and that's definitely my demographic.

It's humbling when people sing back to you!

As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.

I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.

In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'

I haven't shut up, I think, since I was born. I tend to talk a lot, and I sing constantly, and I know that it can be kind of annoying, but I would say I sound a lot like my mom.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.

Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

You know me: jeans, T-shirts, boots, all the time.

I've been in T- shirts and jeans since I was a kid. I don't have to show you a bunch of my skin for you to listen to my songs.

Every 'no' I ever received was an inch closer to a 'yes.'

I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.

I'm 5 foot, 3 inches. Even if I hit you, I'm probably not going to knock you down.

Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes.

I am the youngest of six. There's the smart one and the pretty one, and I am the loud one.

I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.

I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.

If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.

My hair turned gray when I was 24.

It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.

Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.

I was a terrible student, but I never missed a music class. In fact, I don't even think I attended most of my gen-ed classes, but I never missed a single music class.