Ashley McBryde

“A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.”

“I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.”

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

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

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

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

“I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.”

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

“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.”

“Your love is your love. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 68; there can still be someone that makes you feel that way.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I have a soul the devil wouldn't buy.”

“Country music is - can be - a loving industry.”

“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.”

“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.”