Chely Wright

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make. ”

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop. ”

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community. ”

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows. ”

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are. ”

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human. ”

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay. ”

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young. ”