Words matter. These are the best Cam Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My parents were the good parents that said, ‘You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.’
The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It’s like, you can’t see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
Everybody is nicer to me when I’m in yellow.
I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I’m also agreeable. I’ll agree to do a lot of things.
Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch – I bet from the outside, too – because you learn so much, just like in our music… It’s really fun work.
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn’t know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff – that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you’re talking to people and making small talk, I don’t think that’s where music comes from.
The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it’s made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
I was raised by a family that there was no, ‘You’re a girl so you have a limited number of options.’ In my community, that was never anything that happened.
You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.
My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.
Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
Fans give me yellow things, and I think now what’s really fun is, when anyone sees yellow now, they’ll think of me. Now it’s kind of like this self-fulfilling prophecy: Yellow things come to me.
In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, ‘If you don’t get up to feed the horses, you don’t get to ride them.’ We’d get up.
The climate at country radio is very, ‘Let’s keep it up-tempo,’ probably best if you’re a guy.
When I sing a set, people will say, ‘I love ‘Mayday.’ People just love ‘Mayday’ so much. I love it too.
My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
