Gretchen Wilson Quotations

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

Word gets around quickly in Nashville. It's a big city, but it's got that small-town gossip aspect to it. If you have something to offer, it doesn't stay a secret for very long. We kept at it ... Sony (Epic Records) turned me down twice before they gave me a record deal.

People were ready for that in-your-face style strong female song on the radio,

I wish I could say I've traveled more than I have, but I pretty much stayed in one region and I'm sure there are a lot of places like it. To me it just seems so normal around there. It's my home. It's where I grew up. The faces around there look like my kind of people. I look at faces in other parts of the country and I don't get it right off the bat, but I look at anybody up there and it just looks like home.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

I am still nervous when I travel because it is fairly new to me, ... You know, I didn't grow up traveling around the world.

Some have a note in their bag. Some put spoons in their hair and money in their underwear, ... Oh yes, our dolls can be very silly.

Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T-shirts, ... Because your actions strongly influence the youth in your audience ... I ask you to take steps to warn young people of negative health effects of smokeless tobacco use.

Most of them are man-bashing, downing guys. This one doesn't do that. 'Redneck Woman' is just a song about pride.

We do country, jazz, bluegrass, rock?n?roll with a Pink Floyd-type light show and AC/DC-type pyrotechnics. It?s full on. The best way I can describe it is as a rock show with country music.

When ready, we will roll-out with the goal of establishing retail destination sites in appropriate venues, including Nashville, Newport Beach, Harlem and Austin. Importantly, each shop will be designed with memorable visual elements or artifacts germane to the specific locale, and will be promoted by celebrities who are both national and 'local' in their appeal.

Every time I hear his voice coming in on that song, I get goose bumps. I still can't believe Merle Haggard is on my record. But I still haven't met him face to face. I've talked with him a lot on the phone, especially in the last few weeks, when we've been editing the video. It's strange to work with somebody without having ever met them. But hopefully, one of these days, I'll talk him into coming out to a show and perhaps jumping onstage to sing the song with me.

Every time I hear his voice coming in on that song, I get goose bumps.

These new stores will be similar to our well-established boutiques on both coasts,

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

At first I didn't think it made sense, ... But we decided if it was a hidden track, it wouldn't disrupt the flow of the record, and it would also give people the insight that there was more to a redneck woman than they might think.

It's not my life story but stories from my life. And also stories from a lot of women that I grew up around and that I felt were very pivotal in my life and kind of gave me the courage and the strength to keep going. It's kind of going to be a feel-good book for women.

It's the most nerve-racking song to be singing.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

Cause I'm a redneck woman.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Good music is good music.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

If I stop and think about it, it just blows my mind. It's my stage. No restrictions. It's my party, and I am having the best time.

The great thing is getting to play for 8, 10, 12,000 people every night, ... Stepping out on stage and singing for everybody is what it's all about. It's awesome.