Quotes By Miranda Lambert

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I didn't do that many crazy things.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

I'm married to my best friend!

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'

I do appreciate every single dollar I earn.

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

Junk food drags you down.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.