Quotes from Shelby Lynne

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

Sure I got a mouth on me.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

I like to make great albums.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.