Lainey Wilson

"All I've ever wanted to do is sing country music and tell stories that people connect to."

"At the end of the day, I think country music's always been cool."

"Country music is my life."

"I think that confidence comes from when the people that you love and respect believe in you. It makes you start to believe it yourself."

"I'm learning to love everything about myself."

"I've always just wanted to make people feel something with my music - whether it makes you want to laugh, cry or drink a beer."

"Linda Perry, she's just cool."

"My mom and daddy are two of the most hardworking people that I've ever met, and they don't give up easy. And they raised me and my sister like two little boys."

"The only things that get me through hard times are my faith and my people."

"We all go through things, and some things harder than others. But it's my job to make sure that people feel like they're not alone."

"When I was little, my mom bought me a blue leopard-print pair of bell bottoms I was absolutely obsessed with. At one point, she was like, 'You've got to take them off, we've got to wash them.'"

"When you're from a town of 200 people in Northeast Louisiana, you're surrounded by country music. It's the soundtrack of your life. And so I had no choice but to eat, sleep and breathe country music, and I've dedicated my life to it."