To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it’s important for music to be a big family. Whether it’s country or not. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it – and I hope they do, I really do – once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that’s who I am. That’s taken a lot of growing up. I’ve come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don’t grow, you die. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
I make up stories in my head all the time, but I’ve never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I’m singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That’s why a lot of times I close my eyes when I’m singing. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn’t work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, ‘Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should…’ I just kept going. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records… You’re forced to listen to the whole thing. And it’s so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
When my dad passed, there’s a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it’s pure therapy for me. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I’m glad that country fans don’t get mad every time I mess up. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
That can definitely mess with your music – if you overthink. ‘What’s radio going to think?’ or ‘What are these people going to think?’ Ashley Monroe Read Quote
I feel like it’s the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are. Ashley Monroe Read Quote
