A biography for Lainey Wilsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I was on the back of a horse before I could even walk.”
“I'll be honest, as a female in country music, there's definitely times where you need folks to know you're here to show up and work and get down to business.”
“Songwriting has always been my number one no matter what, but I've loved country music - where I'm from, northeast Louisiana, it's a town of 200 people, it's a little town called Baskin. We eat, sleep and breathe country music so that was my focus.”
“My mom and daddy are two of the most hardworking people that I've ever met, and they don't give up easy. And they raised me and my sister like two little boys.”
“The only things that get me through hard times are my faith and my people.”
“I knew from a very young age that nothing comes easy.”
“Sometimes you don't have much time to celebrate, because you gotta get to the next thing, but I think you gotta take that time. You got to.”
“I've always just wanted to make people feel something with my music - whether it makes you want to laugh, cry or drink a beer.”
“I wrote my first song at 9 years old.”
“I always think back to a time of my life where I wish I was busy, I wish people were noticing me or my music and I was praying for opportunities.”
“I remember a time when my parents made me feel like it was rude to ask somebody who they were voting for.”
“Being from a town of 200 people, there's not a whole lot to do except sit around the kitchen table and tell stories - the kind of stories that get better every single time that you hear 'em. That's exactly how country music is for me.”
“I'm a proud Louisianan, and always will be, but from a very early age I've had stars in my eyes for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and I'd like to think that little twinkle helped propel me toward following my dreams and continues to keep me reaching further.”
“Linda Perry, she's just cool.”
“When I think of my high school days, the song that I think about is Deana Carter's 'Strawberry Wine.'”
“At the end of the day, I think country music's always been cool.”
“I feel like I'm a real good detective. I feel like I know who's got my best interest at heart and who doesn't, and I think that probably does come along with just getting older and being around a lot of different folks.”
“I'm always cooking up music.”
“Country music is my life.”