"A hit would be great, whatever that means, but I'd rather make albums and let the album be a hit." - Shelby Lynne
"A lot of Southerners try to change where they're from." - Shelby Lynne
"All I do is party." - Shelby Lynne
"And I'm not worried about having hit records." - Shelby Lynne
"Artists should be able to change, progress and evolve." - Shelby Lynne
"But I don't see why what I'm writing couldn't be a hit record." - Shelby Lynne
"Dolly's one of the pioneers of women in songwriting and having class and being successful at writing her own songs, as well as being a great star and a great singer." - Shelby Lynne
"Don't get me wrong - there are lots of killer songs written in Nashville, but I just found it easier to sing passionately about my own experiences." - Shelby Lynne
"Everything you hear on the record was in my head first. There was none of that get-in-the-studio-and-then-figure-out-what-to-do. I knew before I went in, what I wanted for each song." - Shelby Lynne
"I am just doing my thing because I love music and it is great others are feeling it as well." - Shelby Lynne
"I am very picky about my people and my beer." - Shelby Lynne
"I appreciate all fans for their support." - Shelby Lynne
"I did it, I lived it, I learned from it and I had some great experiences that led to making my new record." - Shelby Lynne
"I didn't fit in the whole cookie-cutter thing there." - Shelby Lynne
"I didn't have a record label, then. I didn't even know I was going to have one." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't believe in cutting a song because it's a hit song." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't claim to be a record producer." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't have any bad feelings about Nashville." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't like comparisons and I don't like people that make them." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't make records for the radio." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't separate myself from what I play." - Shelby Lynne
"I don't write songs for critics or reviewers. I don't care what they think." - Shelby Lynne
"I feel like the more real you can make it, the better record you'll have - as long as it's not obnoxious or cutesy in any way." - Shelby Lynne
"I had to be my own judge and I never got insecure about it because I had nothing to lose." - Shelby Lynne
"I hate it when people compare records." - Shelby Lynne
"I just have to sing. It is something that I love to do." - Shelby Lynne
"I just take my South wherever I go... I'm a Southerner and I will always be." - Shelby Lynne
"I like everything about the South, except when it gets down to a few issues." - Shelby Lynne
"I like rules that are broken." - Shelby Lynne
"I like to make great albums." - Shelby Lynne
"I love being from the South. It's who I am." - Shelby Lynne
"I played most of the instruments and we recorded most of the songs in one take with just me, a bassist and a sound engineer in the room." - Shelby Lynne
"I think Dolly's the greatest star in the business, of all time. She's got it all - the talent, the look, the personality, the sense of humor, the drive. She's everything I would ever want to be." - Shelby Lynne
"I think the theory is that I'm a little too much on the left side of things to have had that happen." - Shelby Lynne
"I wanted to do this record and let the songs speak for themselves." - Shelby Lynne
"I was just trying to change my life and moving out of Nashville; I didn't want to do that anymore." - Shelby Lynne
"I write for the sake of the song." - Shelby Lynne
"I write the songs now, first off." - Shelby Lynne
"I'd heard that Tuesday Night album Bottrell did with Sheryl and I really liked how clean it sounded." - Shelby Lynne
"I'm a singer. I write songs, play a little guitar and I know what I like to hear." - Shelby Lynne
"I'm always for that emotional vibe instead of the perfect vibe." - Shelby Lynne
"I'm too much of an outlaw to fit in a perfect little box." - Shelby Lynne
"I've never heard anything where all the harmony parts were as loud as the lead vocal. It's just a different way." - Shelby Lynne
"Ideas started to flow by just being alone and being able to be really creative." - Shelby Lynne
"In fact I like to aggravate radio people." - Shelby Lynne
"It isn't intentional, but I have always been an old lady." - Shelby Lynne
"It's a corporate, hit-driven world and I realized early in my career that I think I'd rather make great albums rather than have hits." - Shelby Lynne
"It's too grueling - and too much a waste of my time - to think about trying to get on the radio." - Shelby Lynne
"Just listen and if you don't like it, well, suit yourself." - Shelby Lynne
"One important thing I learned from Nashville was to be true to myself." - Shelby Lynne
"That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out." - Shelby Lynne
"The difference is, I do what I want to do now. I don't have the drudgery or the pressure of having to get something on the radio." - Shelby Lynne
"The song is what matters. I don't analyze it." - Shelby Lynne
"The way I mixed the record, everything vocal-wise is on the same level. I wanted all of the harmony parts to be on the same level as the lead part." - Shelby Lynne
"There's a lot of noise on this record because I'm not that picky about that kind of stuff." - Shelby Lynne
"Well, the craziest thing so far was the night we left I wrestled the band." - Shelby Lynne
"Well, we're just going to rock. We're gonna have a good time." - Shelby Lynne
"You put your heart out there and if people show appreciation for what you do, it is a great feeling." - Shelby Lynne
