"I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them."

Source: What’s Really Lurking Behind Your Deepest Fears? by Ryan Greenhalgh, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2015.