Miranda Lambert

I probably deserved it.

My mom had to go with me for the first three months of my house gig because I couldn't get in until I was 18 and I was playing in the house band.

So she'd be like, oh, good, you can drive and I can drink beer and listen to y'all play.

But it's funny what you're talking about teachers.

I feel like there's some that just really, there's that turning point where you meet that one teacher or someone in your childhood or high school years that turns things around for you.

I got like...

When you're talking about your art teacher, this teacher's name is Caldwell, and she taught speech.

And I was a terrified, literal, the shyest kid ever.

My parents are both very vibrant and huge personalities.

And, like, I couldn't get a word in edgewise, so I just didn't talk until I was, like, 16 because they just wouldn't shut up.

They're just constantly, dad's telling old cop stories about his bash days.

And my mom's a PI, so she's telling all her cool stories.

And so I just was really shy.

And my little brother was the same.

He's five years younger.

And, like, we just weren't very, like, vocal.

And I somehow got, I didn't pay attention and didn't put down my classes, you know, like my junior year of high school.

And I got shoved in a class where there was one spot and it was speech honors and it was a debate class.

And, like, that is not my vibe.

panicking my mom came up to the school I was sobbing I was like I can't do this I don't even speak hardly and but I was singing like here and there I was singing in church like I could do it if I was singing but like still shyly singing you know what I mean like kind of in the background and my mom was like we gotta figure this out the school was like