I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart. Shelby Lynne More Quotes by Shelby Lynne More Quotes From Shelby Lynne It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. Shelby Lynne who-i-am taken years So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it. Shelby Lynne feel-good mean people If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it. Shelby Lynne too-much feelings thinking You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it. Shelby Lynne believe art thinking Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am. Shelby Lynne deals wells records What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time. Shelby Lynne moments thinking It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio. Shelby Lynne hard radio Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club. Shelby Lynne dollars clubs night My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up. Shelby Lynne fighting night thinking I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. Shelby Lynne writing song thinking I like to make great albums. Shelby Lynne albums I like strength. I depend on my own. Shelby Lynne depends my-own The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen. Shelby Lynne guitar fire believe I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control. Shelby Lynne labels careers firsts I can't stand too long of a record. Shelby Lynne records i-can long I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences. Shelby Lynne i-can way I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point? Shelby Lynne ifs writing today I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them. Shelby Lynne likes needs firsts I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves. Shelby Lynne emotion writing song I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth. Shelby Lynne surround telling-the-truth people