Quotes by Gretchen Wilson

“I dont really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and its all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and its where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. Ive lived them all.”

“I wish I could say Ive traveled more than I have, but I pretty much stayed in one region and Im sure there are a lot of places like it. To me it just seems so normal around there. Its my home. Its where I grew up. The faces around there look like my kind of people. I look at faces in other parts of the country and I dont get it right off the bat, but I look at anybody up there and it just looks like home.”

“What Im doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. Its like anything else. The only time it doesnt really feel like work to me is when Im on stage and doing what Ive prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.”

“I got to where I couldnt listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.”

“I didnt feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didnt think about it. I had final approval on all the songs. My label trusted me to know my audience. We recorded 16 songs, and we used them all.”

“People were ready for that in-your-face style strong female song on the radio,”

“Most of them are man-bashing, downing guys. This one doesnt do that. Redneck Woman is just a song about pride.”

“The great thing is getting to play for 8, 10, 12,000 people every night, ... Stepping out on stage and singing for everybody is what its all about. Its awesome.”

“At first I didnt think it made sense, ... But we decided if it was a hidden track, it wouldnt disrupt the flow of the record, and it would also give people the insight that there was more to a redneck woman than they might think.”

“It was the first time in their lives that these Romanian women earned money for their work. And for us to be able to make that happen was amazing.”