Miranda Lambert Quotations

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

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.

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.

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

I don't mind having a big butt - they're back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty's not dragging on the ground.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

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

I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

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

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

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

If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

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

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

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

When I'm touring, I have to think of workouts that don't require a gym.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

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

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

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

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

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.'

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

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

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.

Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

Trey makes me feel so comfortable doing a video. She makes you feel like you're just girls, hanging out. Plus, I got to set stuff on fire in the video, so that was fun.

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.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

It's OK to have a little bit of curve.

It's important I deliver a great show and a good time.

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.

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

I'm real proud of this video. It's the third video I've made, and I think I felt really comfortable with this one. When I wrote the song, I thought it would be a cool video.

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

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 really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.

I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.

I can still hardly believe that I performed last year on the same stage that I watched the Country icons perform on so many times growing up. I have had an amazing year since the release of Kerosene last March. Being asked to perform at The Coliseum again this year is icing on the cake! When you are on that huge stage it hits you that you are singing for the people who truly love Country Music -- it's a little intimidating but exciting at the same time. I am so thankful that CMA has enough confidence in me to give me a great time slot again. Playing the arena tours with Keith Urban and George Strait has helped develop my show and I'm ready to give them the best I've got this year!

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

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.

Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

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 carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.

I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

I don’t care about being stick-thin. I don’t want stuff to jiggle. Really skinny actresses make me hungry—I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat! I’m lucky I don’t have to live like that. I feel my best when I’m a toned, not flabby, size 8. Women come up to me and say, ‘You’re beautiful and confident, and that makes me feel I can be, too.’

I'm married to my best friend!

When you live with someone on the bus, for four days a week, you really have to get along.

My family is awesome.

I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of you. But, you know, I started writing songs by myself. I didn't really have a co-writer, besides my dad. When I see a record and it has a song on it that someone wrote [alone], I just really believe in them as a writer. I feel like it's a window into them, more than it is if you write a song with someone else.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

I won’t give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.

I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

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

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

I don't know where 'bro-country' came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music, within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.

Somehow I always get stronger when I'm on my second drink

So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and run like hell to show it off.

I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists' mistakes that I'm never going to use my career as a platform for politics, especially at shows. People come to hear music. It's my job to entertain them, and it's my escape too.

I am proud to be a normal size girl and I want to encourage everyone to be confident at any size.

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

Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.

I do appreciate every single dollar I earn.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.