Natalie Maines
Natalie Maines
Natalie Louise Maines Pasdaris an American singer-songwriter and activist who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band the Dixie Chicks. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines considers herself a rebel who "loved not thinking in the way I knew the majority of people thought."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth14 October 1974
CityLubbock, TX
CountryUnited States of America
mom survival-mode feelings
Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.
communication mean needs
I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. See, I just said I need to be quiet, but that's not the kind of communication I mean. I mean expressing myself or even standing up for myself. I can sometimes be very passive.
dog school kids
I hike every day with my dog, after the kids are off to school. I tend to get wrapped up in all the things that need to be done during the day, so I really am strict about setting that time aside for myself and not scheduling anything before eleven, so I can get my hike in.
fits hair playing role short
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
hope
I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
follow history people scary
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
car cheers hearing house maybe roar time
I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
government point question
To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
country cracks insult listen music people
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
bit
I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
build children goes instincts protect sets shelter walls
I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.
along bigger
I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
far liberal people social wish
I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
country looking playing rock saying
We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.