Martie Maguire

“Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.”

“I'm such a worrier.”

“I now recognize that having a great company behind you can actually impact your motivation to be more creative.”

“I neglected a lot of loving relationships to pursue this ultimate goal - success.”

“At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?”

“When I look back at some of the Chicks stuff, it's the early stuff we did where we kind of giggle and go, 'You know what? Those were the good old days.'”

“I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.”

“I'll be very content if I never play 'Devil Went Down to Georgia' again.”

“We are bound to make mistakes.”

“We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.”

“When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.”

“It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.”

“Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.”

“Sometimes when our manager calls me and says certain things, we go, 'Oh God, we've gotta do that?'”

“So many times I've gone to hear bands and thought, 'Oh, I can't wait to be on that stage.'”

“We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.”

“We spent three years of active trying before we went to IVF. First I went on Clomid. Then I had some dye tests and found I had a collapsed tube, so I had laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming.”

“I don't really enjoy singing lead.”

“We have an older sister who gets pregnant easily. So Emily and I think there may be an environmental cause for our problems. Neither of us were very old when we started trying. But we've lived very parallel lives. We've been in a band together since I was 12 and she was 10. We can't help but wonder, did we stay in a hotel near a power plant?”

“We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.”