Especially in the Dixie Chicks, everyone wants you to play a role. Natalie was the feisty one. Martie was the nice one ’cause she smiles all the time onstage, and I was the quiet one. – Emily Robison
It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you’re famous. – Emily Robison
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren’t. They all have different feelings about the war. – Emily Robison
I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything. – Emily Robison
I don’t think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it’s just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister – growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians. – Emily Robison
It’s really hard to write personal songs. I’m not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don’t write that way. – Emily Robison
People put stock in someone being in a ‘girl group,’ but we don’t say that a band is a ‘man group.’ – Emily Robison
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what’s going on – and that’s scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech. – Emily Robison
When I was at high school, I thought it’d be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I’m too lanky to fit in the cockpit. – Emily Robison
I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I’m just not a cold weather person. – Emily Robison
