Kelsea Ballerini Quotes

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

I grew up listening to English music.

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

Some people say I'm not country, but they don't really know how I grew up.

Country music, to me, is what I grew up on.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.

We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.