Carly Pearce

It\'s crazy out on the road and you really have to take care of your body to make it through.

I used to travel around and dream of being Sonya Isaacs of the Isaacs family.

I\'ve always been an old soul.

I consider myself primarily a songwriter first, so the goal is to write songs that might be personal, but that people can translate into their own particular life.

I think that I know in my heart that I am making music that I would bet my life on.

Sometimes in the arenas it\'s hard to really feel that human connection just because you are so removed and so much further away from the crowd.

I, for a long time, was my own tour manager.

My grandparents were very, very close with me. I was the only grandchild.

I never intended for my singles to completely mirror my life, but they really have.

I got to build a career on signing with a record label that viewed me as a partner and not as an artist who didn\'t know who she was.

Life doesn\'t always turn out the way we thought it would.

When you\'re 29 and divorced, that certainly doesn\'t sound pretty.

My mom and I, we have two movies that we watch every year. We watch \'The Family Stone\' and we watch \'The Holiday\' and that\'s kind of our thing. We may watch them twice. I always know it\'s Christmas when my mom and I are on the couch watching that.

I try to eat organically.

I actually grew up singing bluegrass gospel.

I had no backup plan. I wanted to have a music career since I was 5 years old. I know that might be hard to believe, but it\'s true.

Busbee was like a family member to me.

I feel like I needed to grow up. I needed to grow up as a songwriter. I needed to grow up as a singer, a performer. I needed to grow up as a woman.

I didn\'t know what \'Every Little Thing\' was going to do.

When you are starting a career you have to have confidence.

Somewhere around 24, 25. I met Kelsea Ballerini... we were like in a girl\'s therapy group for artists. And she was the only one in the room, but she would, she was like, I got a record deal and my single \'Love Me Like You Mean It\' is about to come out. And I hated her.

Losing busbee was such a moment of upheaval. He had believed in me... carried me... brought me through everyone getting deals around me... because he knew something I couldn\'t see: that it would happen.

My parents and I are so close. We\'re best friends.

I have a problem. I love shoes, I love clothes, I love makeup.

It\'s my lifelong dream to be able to do what I\'m doing. So it feels unbelievable to be even considered one of the women in country.

I went through a public divorce and wrote a project called \'29\' that really just is all about speaking your truth and owning the fact that we all go through things in life and it\'s all about what comes out of them.

I had plenty of people pass on \'Every Little Thing.\'

A lot of executives simply told me that my sound was dated and wouldn\'t work, kind of telling me essentially to go away, that my music would never work in that \'bro-country\' world. It broke my heart at times, but I also believed strongly in the music.

For so long I felt like I needed to be 18, 19, 20 years old because that\'s what the entertainment industry tells you.

My life has completely changed. Overnight it changed with \'Every Little Thing.\'