A biography for Shelby Lynnehasn’t been written yet.
“That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.”
“You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.”
“I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.”
“Sure I got a mouth on me.”
“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.”
“My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.”
“All I do is party.”
“I was an opening act for 10 years.”
“It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.”
“I didn't go to college.”
“I don't feel like taking anybody's money.”
“I like rules that are broken.”
“I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.”
“I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.”
“I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.”
“Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.”
“I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.”
“I was singing before I could talk.”
“I like to make great albums.”
“I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.”