Quotes

[on the challenge in 2014 of composing country songs] I don't like it when people try to pretty up a situation. Yeah, it's kind of a tough economy and people may want to get their minds off that, but they also want to feel like they're being related to. Even it it's kind of bleak or depressing, maybe they take comfort inn the fact they're not alone.

I'm influenced by so many different kind of things, so naturally the music that comes out of me is skewered, I guess, for different kinds of people and not just straight down the middle. It's not in a box.

If you're ever gonna find a four-leaf clover, you gotta get a little dirt on your hands.

I think throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap. The things I'm singing about are not controversial to me, I don't push buttons to push buttons. I talk about things that have made an impression on me that a lot of people everywhere are going through.

I'm just kind of over the angry Southern ball-busting chick songs. Not that I don't have times where I'm angry or sassy. I do have moments of just kind of going for it, but I don't want that to be my thing, really. I just feel like as a whole, I would like to offer a different perspective. I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick -- as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

Don't tell me to stop smoking weed! You're not my grandma!

[idea behind her nude Deeper Well album cover] Injust randomly had this idea... Because it was a big, wide-open green space. And I was like, What if I was just really small? Like in the fetal position, sort of, into the earth. And it's just sort of vulnerable and almost like rebirth, I guess.

[grandmother's reaction to her nude album cover] I was showing my parents and my grandparents the photos that my sister had taken. And then the naked one came up, and Nana was like, 'Gasp!' Like she just saw a car wreck, basically. She was like, 'No!' She was like, 'That's not that's a cover?' And I was like, 'Yeah, it's one of the covers.' And she was like, 'Kacey, you're a singer, not a stripper.' And I was like, 'Well, you know what? You can be both.'