Kelsea Ballerini Quotes
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I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.
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I try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
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I was a huge Jonas Brothers fan, unapologetically, when I was 12 or 13.
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I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
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I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
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I'm not super traditional at all.
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The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?
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It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'
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I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
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I'm in this wave with Maddie & Tae and RaeLynn and Mickey Guyton and Cam. We're all kind of finding our niches and becoming successful. I think that it's just been really fun to be with them and do this all together.
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It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It's really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show.
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I love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.
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You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.
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I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.
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As a young woman, I just think there's something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.
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I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.
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I've always wanted to dye my hair a bright color.
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Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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With Rascal Flatts, I'm such a fan of them, and I feel like they've been so gracefully relevant through decades of country music.
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I try to exercise when I'm on road - I really do try - but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move.
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'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.
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I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
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There's value in being a normal person.