“If I'm gonna invite you to walk a country music awards show carpet, yo...” — Lainey Wilson Quote

If I'm gonna invite you to walk a country music awards show carpet, you have to be really, really special to me and really important in my life.

Country music is my life.

It's hard to love some people.

I would walk up and down Music Row in Nashville and pass out my demos and my CDs. I had a lot of folks slam the door in my face.

Anytime I do feel like, 'Man, how much more do I actually have to give?' I have to make time to actually fill my cup so I can give more.

I remember liking the MTV awards when I was a kid.

Don't let awards get the best of you.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy when I heard I did win because I was in London at the time, and we were doing a festival out there, and my manager was like, 'You just won an ACM.' And I was like, 'How? It's so early!'