Top 40 Kelsea Quotes
#2. Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men.
Erika Johansen
#3. Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful.
Erika Johansen
#4. What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson.
"What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight.
Erika Johansen
#5. And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse.
Erika Johansen
#6. But even Carlin's words had no weight when fury washed over Kelsea; it was a tide that cleared all obstacles.
Erika Johansen
#7. Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage.
Erika Johansen
#8. As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.
Kelsea Ballerini
#9. We had three cows and a goat. People from New York and L.A. are like, 'Oh my gosh, that's a farm!' But people in Tennessee are like, 'That's not a farm.' I've never milked a cow or anything like that.
Kelsea Ballerini
#10. I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
Kelsea Ballerini
#11. I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.
Kelsea Ballerini
#12. Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
Kelsea Ballerini
#13. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.
Erika Johansen
#14. 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.
Kelsea Ballerini
#15. I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."
Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.
Erika Johansen
#16. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.
Kelsea Ballerini
#17. I am a fan before I am an artist. I was that twelve year old girl that looked up to Taylor Swift. I get what that role is as a fan. I think that because I know that, I'm really careful and intentional about what I say and what I put out. I want to be that role for anyone who wants me to be that.
Kelsea Ballerini
#18. I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
Kelsea Ballerini
#19. My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.
Kelsea Ballerini
#20. I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.'
Kelsea Ballerini
#21. I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.
Kelsea Ballerini
#22. The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?
Kelsea Ballerini
#24. I danced for 10 years. I was on a competitive hip-hop team, but then I, like, grew seven inches in one year - not really, but I grew tall and really lanky, and I lost all my coordination.
Kelsea Ballerini
#25. Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement
Erika Johansen
#26. Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.
Erika Johansen
#27. 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.
Kelsea Ballerini
#29. The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.
Kelsea Ballerini
#30. I wouldn't be an artist if I didn't have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to.
Kelsea Ballerini
#31. Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.
Erika Johansen
#32. There's a YouTube video of these two kittens that just fall over and pass out. My blood sugar's crazy, so I would pass out sometimes, like the fainting kittens.
Kelsea Ballerini
#33. I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.
Kelsea Ballerini
#34. When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.
Kelsea Ballerini
#35. My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.
Kelsea Ballerini
#36. I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
Kelsea Ballerini
#37. The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.
Erika Johansen
#38. Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
Kelsea Ballerini
#39. I am such a girly girl, and I love not playing it safe. I'm so new to this world, so it's fun to establish myself as a fashionista.
Kelsea Ballerini
#40. I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.
Kelsea Ballerini
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