Margo Price

“My least favorite joke right now is Donald Trump.”

“I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.”

“I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'”

“I'm a massive 'Seinfeld' freak, and growing up, I always wanted to be Elaine - but I think everybody has a little bit of George in them, even if nobody wants to admit it.”

“I'm always the most country person in the room.”

“I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.”

“When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.”

“I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers.”

“I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.”

“Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.”

“A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.”

“I had the most frustrating thing happen when I was trying to find a label. I sent my album to this indie label, and they were like, 'We already have two girls on the label. I'm so sorry, we just can't take your project.'”

“From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.”

“A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.”

“I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.”

“I'm not from the South, but I love country music. And country music is really big in the Midwest. Connie Smith came from Ohio. Jessi Colter was from Arizona.”

“You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.”

“A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!”

“I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.”

“I love Willie Nelson's 'Phases And Stages'; there's so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like 'Tears Of Rage.' I love Karen Dalton's 'In My Own Time' and Skip James.”