"It has been a long overnight success. But it is kind of a new beginning for us."
"We're always trying to grow as musicians and singers."
"I think Texas is the main thing that we all have in common, just hearing so much Texas music."
"I'd hear kids outside playing kickball and I hated that I was inside. Now, of course, I'm grateful for it."
"We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together."
"I don't have chickens!"
"Old-time country played with a new sensibility by three blondes is the best I can figure it."
"I tried to get my sparkled kneepads so I can like run and slide with my banjo but they're not coming along very well."
"Our music always reflects where we are in our lives."
"Right now, it's a great time for us because there have been so many women who have opened the doors."
"When it comes to music, it is amazing how much we agree on things. It's usually three thumbs up or three thumbs down."
"All of us care so much. Everybody in this band is so passionate about this music."
"We played orchestra in school. We were 'Orch Dorks.' "
"Playing together is all I've ever known."
"The most important thing for us is to have a life."
"I'm glad we're drawing the country crowd to the tour. At the same time we're picking up new fans who don't usually listen to country by showing them it isn't square."
"We just know what dorks we are."
"We're coming from a place where we learned to figure out parts from the ground up, working out our own signature licks, getting down to the nitty-gritty of it."
"I've played around with it but Martie always made it clear that violin was her instrument, even when we were really young."
"I believe this is my destiny now."
"We knew we wanted to keep it acoustic- that's just natural, because we all play acoustic instruments- but we knew we had to incorporate Natalie's edge with our bluegrassy traditionalism."
"It was really hard on our hearts." (Talking about leaving Laura Lynch.)
"We want to go back in the studio with the same, nothing-to-lose attitude that we had on our first time."
""He was a good music father figure for Martie & me." (Talking about Lloyd Maines.)
"Sometimes things are more palatable when you treat them with humor."
"We wanted to be everythng to everybody, and that's just impossible."
"When Natalie came into the band, we felt like we had a sound, and if we could go to Nashville, we'd want our producers to capture that sound."
"The best part about married life is having a husband like Charlie."
"We were way too campy for Nashville."
"I was the kind of girl who always wanted to run with the boys. I wanted to do what they were doing and do it better."
"We want to sell out our shows - and we think we can."
"It just felt right, so right we didn't want to second-guess it."
"They say I have the ugliest feet in the world. I don't care if they say it - I'm not gonna hide 'em!"
"Our goal was to build a fan base."
"Our outfits were fringe & 10 gallon cowgirl hats."
"I'm solid."
"I just wanted to know, 'How much is the caterer?' I was on cloud nine, and my way of empathizing it was staying out of their way."
"We wanted national attention at the same time that we wanted to stay purely Texas."
"We really liked her voice." - of letting Natalie into the band
"Charlie does all of the hands-on ranch stuff. I write the checks."
"We never thought it was going to be a radio success."
"We were all sitting around the telephone in our hotel room waiting and Simon calls and says 'Mission accomplished.'"
"I didn't see any girls playing it, and I thought it was just so different and bizarre and wonderful at the same time." - about playing the banjo
"We hash things out. We're equals."
"It was always practice before homework."
"I did have role models, but most of them were male."
"We thought it was going to be one of those little left-of-center projects that musicians in Nashville get to hear."
"We got up so late today!"
"I've always done things to keep up with the boys."
"If the categories are things like arena rock, we're going to duke it out!"-from Rock and Roll Jeopardy
"I'm amazed how well we get along for having walked into it fairly blindly."
"I think Wide Open Spaces is a great album."
"The way [our career] took off was just amazing."
"Even if some people don't like it, the people who do will know that it's different."
"It was an experimental time for me, wanting to play different kinds of songs, wanting to branch out. So I started playing the guitar, just to get a different texture, but I still strung it like a banjo."
"You're so deep in the eye of the hurricane that you don't realize what's going on around you."
"It gets a little intimidating the first time you're in a studio with the Big Nashville Producers."
"We did bluegrass, we did blues, we did swing, we did country." - of the original band
"We didn't want to be Nashville fluff."
"If you're going to take a solo, make it hot- don't give me something I've heard a million times before."
"Whether or not we're the best musicians for the job, it's us. It sounds like us."
"Murder is ok, but mattress dancing isn't?"
"The most important thing for us is to have a life. Our life is not the Dixie Chicks - it's a wonderful part of our lives, but it's not the entire thing."
