Top 33 Aubrie Sellers Quotes

Sometimes I’ll meet somebody, and they’ve looked me up online or whatever, and they’ve never heard me talk or met me. I think they expect me to be a lot darker than I am and maybe less – not less friendly – but I guess I’m drawn to that dark emotional music. Maybe they think I’m a little more brooding.

To be honest, when you grow up in the music business, people heard me sing from a young age, and you get offered development deals and things like that.

The drums are very trashy: it’s all electric, it’s very in your face, and it’s not perfect. It’s raw, and I think that’s what ‘garage’ means.

So much of the music I love is polarizing. People might either hate it or love it, but they remember it because it was different. That means it was pushing buttons and not just following trends.

‘Elle’ is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.

At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination and their experiences.

I didn’t sign a record deal; I didn’t do any of that. I made my record independently, and I went out and hit the road in a van.

A lot of the songs are very rock-oriented. My voice makes them country, and a lot of people think that is a strange combination… I think it creates something different and unique.

It’s very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it’s why I don’t always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That’s the kind of music I connect with most.

When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

There’s a new grievance every day to write about.

There’s a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.

Steve Earle had a mainstream career. Dwight Yoakam had a mainstream career. Willie Nelson did. But they always made good music, they always stuck to who they were. They weren’t relying on radio like a lot of people are in Nashville.

Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it’s all about the music.

‘Sit Here and Cry’ was one of the first songs I wrote with that overdramatic sarcastic dry sense of humor, which is why the energy of the song doesn’t necessarily reflect the subject matter.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I’m writing by myself, it’s coming from something I’ve experienced.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

I want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

When I’m writing, I’m focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.

I don’t tend to write when I’m happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

What really excites me is the production. I get in there and change a lot of stuff.

I had all these raw, gritty rock records that really inspired me sonically, and so I think everything I listen to when I started writing my own songs kind of came out naturally, and it created this new sound.

I love narrative videos, but sometimes I think they can limit a listener’s experience of a song.

I’ve always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I’m writing songs, that’s what I try to do.

I grew up in the entertainment industry, and I think being around that gave me a different perspective on people and what’s real and what’s fake. I think about that a lot, and it comes out in my songs.

Listening to ‘Raising Sand’ was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.

I’m a very friendly, smiley person.