Lainey Wilson

“When you're from a town of 200 people in Northeast Louisiana, you're surrounded by country music. It's the soundtrack of your life. And so I had no choice but to eat, sleep and breathe country music, and I've dedicated my life to it.”

“The entire cast and crew of 'Yellowstone' - just good, hardworking people - really embraced me and lifted me up. I didn't know what to expect going into it but I learned a lot. It gave me an opportunity to share my music with the world and that's all I've ever wanted to do.”

“When someone is going through things in life you just wish you could take all their hurt and pain away. I feel like that's what a dreamcatcher does.”

“It makes you feel like a warm hug when you listen to the stories in the music. It's why I fell in love with this music.”

“If I'm gonna invite you to walk a country music awards show carpet, you have to be really, really special to me and really important in my life.”

“There's no doubt that I'm southern, I'm country, I'm a redneck, I'm whatever you want to call it.”

“I am hardheaded. I really am, and if you could sit down and talk to my parents, you would realize why I am the way that I am.”

“Everybody's got their own journey.”

“The truth is, you can say anything you want to about me, but when you start talking about my accent, I'm ready to fight somebody because then I start feeling you're talking about my family.”

“Whirlwinds cause turbulence that cause chaos. But at the end of the day, you figure out how to come back to the center.”

“It's hard to love some people.”

“We all go through things, and some things harder than others. But it's my job to make sure that people feel like they're not alone.”

“When you are young, wild, and crazy in love, it feels extremely deep.”

“It's important for me to be proud of where I come from and the way that I was raised, but not dwell on it too much - because who really cares? Let's take that and move forward with it.”

“As a songwriter I take a lot of pride in my writing, and 'Things a Man Oughta Know' won ACM Song of the Year.”

“It's been brick by brick for me, it's been song by song, it has been team member by team member, it has been fan by fan.”

“I think that confidence comes from when the people that you love and respect believe in you. It makes you start to believe it yourself.”

“I have a lot of people in my life who remind me of my hard work.”

“I feel like sometimes you gotta pretend. You gotta put yourself in the shoes of things you're not, so you can become them.”

“I find out a little more every single day about myself. And when it comes to my songwriting, I feel like it's easier for me to just lay it all out there and let the walls down completely. I mean, it can be extremely scary to be so vulnerable and real, but that's just me.”