Ashley McBryde

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm kind of a squirrely individual.”

“I was kind of always the underdog.”

“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.”

“My hair turned gray when I was 24.”

“I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!”

“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.”

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

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

“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.'”

“It's humbling when people sing back to you!”

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

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

“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'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.”

“Everything I ever needed came out of a radio and a dashboard. My Mount Rushmore of what was cool came out of a radio - Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Mark Chesnutt.”

“You never know when the love of your life might just walk in.”

“In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.”

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