Kacey Musgraves

I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.

I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.

I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.