Lari White

“Looking back, I wonder where my head was at on some of the last few albums, and I know I was just doing what I thought I needed to at the time.”

“I love music with my soul, but I'm also a student of it, so it's very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.”

“Chuck is definitely my favorite co-writer, and my best. It is really hard to make yourself vulnerable enough for somebody to get inside your head while songwriting. Chuck and I find writing together very non-competitive and just really easy.”

“It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it often happens for the better.”

“I really felt like it was a dangerous trap to get into, having had such great success with 'Wishes,' it just wasn't in my blood not to play it safe and just do that again.”

“To willfully harm another human being goes against everything I believe in.”

“My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.”

“Of course, I love the arenas; there's a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there's something that's very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you're almost getting to know everyone in the audience.”

“I want to be able to take singles, serve them up to radio on a silver platter and just have them smoke - just obvious great-sounding, great-feeling radio singles.”

“To make a label change is a difficult time because there is that lag period between the product you had out and the next project you're going to make on your new label.”

“I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.”

“It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel and moved on, which kind of gave the artist an opportunity to grow.”

“I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.”

“The most difficult part is just to get heard.”

“I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.”

“I never thought I'd be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.”

“I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little at a time.”

“The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.”

“Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.”

“I'd always wanted to be a mom. Actually, being a mom was always my top priority. It was like, 'I'm going to be a star and I'm going to get done with that and then I'm going to go be a mom.'”