If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can't stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
Maddie Marlow
We have more to offer than just looking good.
With our music, we don't want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.
We left our homes and moved to Nashville as teenagers, and suddenly, we were on our own. We knew all we wanted to do in the world was write and sing... and the only way that would happen would be to jump, but you still get scared or sure you've done a dumb thing.
The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is do the best with what you have with where you are.
I think, us ladies, we are complicated creatures.
With everything that Tae and I do, we want to make sure it's true and honest to who we are as people and artists.
'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way to put it is, if there's a little girl in the audience, and she's looking at us, I want her parents to feel comfortable with her admiring us and looking up to us.
Tae loves color, and I'm more into jeans. We like to think we're bohemian chic.
There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.
For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
'Girl In A Country Song' was uptempo, rockin', and such a bold song.
When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.
I wish for other people because I already have all my wishes.
It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front.
What's an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?
We have made such great friends at country radio. I think they love the honesty of 'Fly' and how raw and vulnerable it is.
I will say, as southern women, there is a southern way of life that inspires a lot of music. I can see why that's a common thread through music, but the best part about country is it's about real life. It's not about this glamorous Lamborghini, walking around with gold necklaces, all that stuff.
Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together.
We wrote 'Fly' in such a vulnerable place where we weren't sure if we had what it took or we would ever make it. Now to have that song on country radio and have our fans singing it back is just wild, because we remember that exact moment, feeling that way.
We're acoustically driven, and there's no doubt we're country.
We've always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn't necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.
We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.
We are not going to release an album that we don't believe in.
I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.
Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it's so fun to venture out to another creative outlet.
Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it's wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.
I truly look in the mirror and love who I am today because of the pain that I had to go through to get here.
Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.
The center stone on my ring is the diamond from my mom's original engagement ring. My parents have been married 25 years! My dad bought her a new ring a while back, so she kept her original diamond to pass down to me or my sister someday. It is so special having an heirloom ring because I will get to pass it down one day, too.
I have a really weird thing with my dreams. I've had vivid dreams in the past that actually came true days after the dream.
We just feel so blessed, like God picked us two goobers to do this crazy thing and speak up for people that don't have a voice and give them something to hang onto. If we've done that for one person, I think we've done our job.
I've gotten a lot better with accepting change, because I used to want a consistent schedule.
Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them and take as much wisdom as I can from each trial.
Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.
It's our job as followers of Christ to love our brothers and sisters even if they are different than us!
We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.
Being bold and standing our ground is important, and making sure you don't allow people to run all over you.
To tie in the whole Christianity aspect, as Christians, we're taught our whole lives to love people no matter what, and in country music, that's okay; that's something that's accepted. That's why it's a great genre for us, because we can speak about all kinds of different things.
Being a young woman, fashion is super important, and it's just fun.
Some people forget that when you are collaborating, you aren't always right. So you have to be open-minded and have to remember there are two minds creating. So you have to respect the other person.
It's a spiritual experience on stage almost every night. Especially, with the song 'Fly.' We were so inspired to write this song and just to hear people's stories and how it's impacted them.
I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.
We hadn't met anyone else as ambitious as us. We immediately recognized each other's drive.
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it told me to slide my sugar shaker over.' If any guy spoke to us the way those country songs spoke to women, it would not be good for that guy. I would probably punch him in the face.
We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she's coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.
We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
We have people come up to us all the time in meet-and-greets saying, 'Thank you so much for writing that, because I went through a similar situation, and that song lifted my spirit and gave me the confidence that I needed.'
