Lee Ann Womack Quotes

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won’t.

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn’t over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

When you really are country, and you don’t just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can’t get away from it. It just is who you are.

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there’s a routine going on that I’m not a part of, so that can be difficult.

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I’d feel like a star, I’d feel important. But I don’t.

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don’t think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

So it’s more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that’s my thing that I’m better at than the others.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

It’s hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It’s hard to switch gears.

I’ve learned the lesson that when you’re in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you’re in a bad situation and it seems like it’s the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it’s not.

I’m the most low-maintenance person on the road.

I’m a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

I want to reach as many people as I can.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy’s girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he’d walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus… we all have little Macs actually, there’s four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

I don’t sing country music because I’m not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it’s the most beautiful kind of music there is.

I don’t go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I’m just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.