Maren Morris Quotes
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With streaming services, the walls have come down a bit on genres. So I never really set out to make a country record or a pop record. I just wanted to make it mine.
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I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.
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I was 14, and I played this club that's no longer there because it was poorly managed: the Texas Tea House in Fort Worth.
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Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.
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You either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or sing about thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you. That's about as edgy as you can get.
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I love pop music, I love country music.
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I don't want to get political here, but everything I've heard out of Donald Trump is definitely, um, shocking. The fact that he's got women fans is very alarming to me, because some of the stuff that has come out of his mouth is just so awful.
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I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.
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It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.
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I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.
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When I was touring in Texas, that was before iPods and Spotify. Driving around through towns, I had to, out of necessity, scroll the radio. Whatever region of the country you are in, that's a great way to find out what they listen to. You find music wherever you are, and that becomes the soundtrack for whatever your road trip is.
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Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.
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When I look at most lineups, especially in country, women are definitely lacking in numbers.
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I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.
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I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.
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Enjoy every moment because it is so good and just a testament to all the work you've put in.
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I've paved this road myself, and no one else has walked it the same exact way that I have. There are people that helped kick the door in, but it's really satisfying to be in a place where you know who you are and you've figured yourself out.
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I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.
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I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks 'My Church' hit a million streams.
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I think about all of the freaking talent shows I've tried out for in my life, and I'm so glad I didn't make any of them.
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The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.
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I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.
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I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.
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A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.