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Miranda Lambert
I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.
I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.
I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.
I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.
Junk food drags you down.
Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.
I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.
I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.
I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.
The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.
Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.
I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.
After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.
I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.
A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.
I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!
I have seven rescue dogs.
If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?
I'm not a girl anymore.
I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
I'm country through and through.
I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.
Crunches only go so deep.
I sucked in school.
I just am who I am.
I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.
I really love jeans.
Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.
I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.
We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.
I got my first handgun license when I was 22.
I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'
One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.
I don't mind having a big butt - they're back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty's not dragging on the ground.
The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.
In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.
My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.
You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.
Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.
Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.
I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.
My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
