I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.
I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.
Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.
I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.
Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Charles. He is class, man.
Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.
I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.
There's one place that I've always known I wanted to be, and that is on country radio.
I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.
Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.
I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.
I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write.
My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.
Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
I like Loretta Lynn.
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.
I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.
Probably the first artist who really captured me was Tim McGraw. His songs 'Don't Take the Girl' and 'Indian Outlaw' were fun, and he was different than a lot of artists.
It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.
