"A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel." - Suzy Bogguss
"After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for." - Suzy Bogguss
"After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here." - Suzy Bogguss
"Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today." - Suzy Bogguss
"As much as I love the amazing players in Nashville, and once in a while you can get that unrehearsed kind of feeling, it can be difficult here." - Suzy Bogguss
"But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home." - Suzy Bogguss
"But the folks at Dollywood convinced me that it was a good career move by pointing out that I'd be opening shows for Dolly Parton - to an audience of 10,000." - Suzy Bogguss
"But this has been a great thing for me too; because in a way it's being accepted into this genre and having people acknowledge that this is not your standard commercial-type country music." - Suzy Bogguss
"Country has been a wonderful outlet for me." - Suzy Bogguss
"For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating." - Suzy Bogguss
"I had a solo in the seventh grade Christmas recital and I shook so badly it sounded like I had a shotgun vibrato." - Suzy Bogguss
"I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins." - Suzy Bogguss
"I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with." - Suzy Bogguss
"I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards." - Suzy Bogguss
"I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly." - Suzy Bogguss
"I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is." - Suzy Bogguss
"I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album." - Suzy Bogguss
"I used to sing every song Emmylou Harris ever recorded. She rocks!" - Suzy Bogguss
"I wanted it to be a small production, something that sounded like what you would hear live in a club with a real loose feel." - Suzy Bogguss
"I'm a real Suzy Homemaker." - Suzy Bogguss
"I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun." - Suzy Bogguss
"I've always loved to sing." - Suzy Bogguss
"I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist." - Suzy Bogguss
"I've been playing swing chords for a long time." - Suzy Bogguss
"I've known Ray Benson for almost 20 years. I used to open for him in Montana when I was out working solo with just my guitar." - Suzy Bogguss
"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right." - Suzy Bogguss
"If you mean my revelation - it was in Big Sky, MT when I was playing a ski resort, (in the summer) and I realized there would be no talent scouts at 14,000 feet." - Suzy Bogguss
"It's been a real roller coaster ride... I've been to the top where everybody likes you, and I've seen the ride back down... that's when you begin to see what a long ride it is... both up and down... still, I hope it's a long, long ride that I'll stay on for years to come." - Suzy Bogguss
"It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you." - Suzy Bogguss
"Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me." - Suzy Bogguss
"My first solo was in church when I was five." - Suzy Bogguss
"My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time." - Suzy Bogguss
"My touring band is awesome. They're amazing players, who love playing this style of music. They're very versatile." - Suzy Bogguss
"One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story." - Suzy Bogguss
"The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers." - Suzy Bogguss