Top 80 Maren Morris Quotes

Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That’s the antithesis of the artist mentality.

I didn’t grow up around a lot of souped-up automobiles. I love my Prius.

I’ve always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called ‘Last Turn Home.’ The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw’s label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

I’ve learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.

It seems like almost every day I’ve been able to cross things off my bucket list.

A lot of new artists, especially girl artists, feel pressure to be so ‘media perfect’ and ‘trained.’ I’m intelligent, but I don’t like hearing regurgitated answers in interviews that sound so rehearsed.

I feel like it’s improving a little bit as we go on, but I’ve never been to Lilith Fair. It always seemed so cool that it was started by women, for women, and it was a safe place to go and hear all of your favorite female acts in one space.

I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks ‘My Church’ hit a million streams.

A really big thing I’ve learned – and I think it’s so liberating – is when you realize no one knows what they’re doing.

It’s a pipe dream, but for me, I’ve always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

To turn the radio on and hear so much more diversity, it’s so refreshing. That voice that cuts through what you’ve been hearing, it’s inspiring.

When I look at most lineups, especially in country, women are definitely lacking in numbers.

My scope on what’s good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.

Right before I go out, we usually put on some Lauryn Hill or Fugees, and I’ll do a shot of tequila just to calm my nerves.

I care about women’s rights and reproductive rights and my gay friends being able to keep their marriages official. You don’t want your genre to disown you for it – and I don’t think they would now – but you still see that sort of hatred and vitriol that comes with disagreeing with the conservative agenda.

It’s not my aim to be this, like, ‘savior for females.’ I just want to make good music.

Even though I was playing myself on ‘NCIS,’ it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we’re equal. You don’t have to take care of me.

If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don’t think… it would have been a total nightmare.

Performing with Thomas Rhett our song ‘Craving You,’ I’m so excited for the fans to see it and sort of see our worlds come together because I feel like he’s sort of a genre pusher and boundary pusher, and I feel the same way about my music.

I’ve written some really good songs that I love hungover because I wasn’t overthinking it.

Enjoy every moment because it is so good and just a testament to all the work you’ve put in.

I don’t know if there’s something in the water in Texas, but there’s a lot of us really ballsy women that have something to say.

You need someone there that gets what you’re going through.

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.

I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.

I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.

I’m a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.

In Texas, it’s legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that’s sort of the aim I had with ‘Hero’ – just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.

There’s no grace period between album one and album two.

A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn’t realize it was becoming an album, but it was.

I’m young, but I’ve been doing this a long time… There’s obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it. It’s a hard town. There’s a lot of talent here. It’s all about timing, too. I just feel like I finally found the right town and the right song.

My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

I think about the people that I’ve seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville – sometimes it comes to me that way.

I always get less nervous when we get into rehearsals because it just gives me a better idea of how it’s gonna go.

Sheryl Crow. I loved her ‘Tuesday Night Music Club.’ She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn’t trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That’s been the thinking of all my favorite artists.

I think I just knew in my head there was something special about ‘My Church,’ and getting to accept a Grammy for it was just proof that I made the right decision.

If you think about ‘The Pill’ by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women – country listeners and beyond – that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.

It’s such a changing industry, and I realize that it’s become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It’s the artist’s story captured in 12 or 15 songs.

I didn’t move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn’t have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

‘Mr. Misunderstood’ – that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I’d be devastated, but I’d also still be doing this. I’d still be writing songs. I’d still be recording them. I was doing that for four years in Nashville. This is just on a larger stage.

I’m a ’90s kid, so I loved ‘NSync and the Spice Girls.

At my shows, I’ve been fortunate to see every walk of life.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don’t know what you’re going to write until you are writing it. There is no formula. And, sometimes, you really have to work at it and hunker down.

The songs will come as they come, and I’m excited because I haven’t gotten to be really creative in a while. I’m excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It’s like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it’s so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.

I’m not this bright-eyed 17-year-old that got signed to a label and is listening to all these suits tell them the best plan of action.

Food is always a favorite on my docket when I go somewhere.

I love, love songs, but sometimes it’s okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.

I’m not in the teenybopper bracket, and I’m not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.

I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.

I don’t want to get political here, but everything I’ve heard out of Donald Trump is definitely, um, shocking. The fact that he’s got women fans is very alarming to me, because some of the stuff that has come out of his mouth is just so awful.

They say it can all change with one song, and in my case, that rings very true, I was shocked that it happened this quickly.

You can’t be rolling into town with stars in your eyes. A lot of people get to Nashville and immediately start selling themselves: ‘Let’s go to lunch and talk about the business!’ Then you realize everyone is talented here.

I’m just getting back into my songwriting groove. It’s still pretty early. But I don’t want to make ‘Hero 2.’ It’s going to be different.