Caitlin Rose Quotes

"I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't."

"If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails."

"I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise."

"The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music."

"I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC."

"I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull."

"I like buying iTunes. It's instant."

"I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out."

"I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old."

"I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of."

"'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars."

"It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop."

"I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it."