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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Sara Lynn Evans is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is also credited as a record producer, actress and author. She had five songs reach the number one spot on the Billboard country songs chart and has sold over six million albums. Nine additional singles have reached the top ten of the Billboard country chart, including "I Could Not Ask for More", "I Keep Looking" and "Cheatin'". Among her top 20 charting singles are "Saints & Angels", "Backseat of a Greyhound Bus" and "As If". She has won accolades from the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. She has also been nominated for several more accolades from both associations, including Female Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year.
Growing up on a farm in the '70s and '80s was just idyllic, you know, but I look at the difference in the way that my kids have grown up and how I've really done so much and dedicated my life and my heart and soul to making their life as easy as possible, because we always want our children to have it better than we had it.
I was so intimidated being on 'Nashville,' and acting is so much harder than it seems. But I'm always open to any opportunity that someone brings me.
You're supposed to put the child in their own room at six weeks. I don't think your child should ever sleep with you.
I want to be nominated for Grammys.
I have a great team in Nashville that works so hard to organize my life and stay way ahead of the game. We're just really open and have a lot of communication and dialogue about making it our goal to keep me home as much as possible - as little time away from the kids as possible.
I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.
My mom, her only dream was just to be a farmer.
When the child is born, go home and just have it be you and your wife and the baby. I think all the stress can happen when in-laws and relatives all try to come in and help you. The best way to learn is to come home and do it yourself.
I despise pregnancy.
That's how I started out singing, was that real old-timey country.
I'm too nice, way too nice. Personal relationships I am very much like that, but not professionally.
My advice is toughen up, work hard. Start taking responsibility for yourself. Stop being so offended.
It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country music won't play my music, I'm not gonna go and record a party song or a truck song just to try to get spins. I have to be authentic to myself.
I'll tell anyone anything about my life, and that is my biggest goal is to always be authentic - in my music, in my artwork, in everything I do. It has to be who I really am.
Being on 'Dancing with the Stars' was such a fun experience and one of the highlights of my career.
My tendency has always been to lean more conservative, for sure.
I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.
When you're an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.
My mom told me that when the car struck me, I landed 80 feet off the road. When they found me, I was curled up in a ball with my left leg mangled and twisted and almost severed in two. They all thought I was dead.
You never know what the weather's gonna do. And the same with music, you never know if radio's going to play your single.
I write a lot about my parents, and how they met. I talk about my parents, and how they got married right out of high school and immediately started having kids.
My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into that and hope and pray that it stands on its own.
People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.
I'm such a homebody.
I've probably been the hardest on my dad. I was the oldest girl; I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth until 12, I had him, and I was the center of his attention. So that just all completely changed and went away when they divorced.
I mean, that's always my goal when I put an album together, is that every single song serves a purpose.
I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.
I definitely don't think anybody should be voting for someone just because they're cute.
I grew up on a horse.
I had severe PTSD and anxiety, but it was the '80s, and I didn't have a name for it. I don't think my mother even thought, like, 'Maybe I should take her to therapy.' I thought I could handle it because I'm tough.
First of all, my husband is amazing, and he is an incredible father and he's very organized.
I love to never regret, or go, 'I wish I would have tried that.'
Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.
I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of records.
Every time I do anything with TV, I always go away going, 'That was so fun.'
Girls want to be pursued.
I'm totally an empath, and I'm so susceptive to being walked on and being taken for granted.
I want different songs and different artists as I listen to the radio.
I absolutely love Christmas and look forward to the Holiday season all year long!
I've always thought about someday producing other artists or developing other artists.
I'm very open.
I had my own booth at Fan Fair when I was 9 or 10 years old. I made a little record and I had a manager in Missouri, so we came up to Fan Fair to sell those records and try to get me a record deal. Clearly it wasn't meant to be at 10 years old, but my memory is that I went to use the bathroom, and I met Sylvia. I was in shock.
Can't Stop Lovin' You' - which is the duet with Isaac Slade - is so sexy and passionate. The passion in that song... I think people are gonna die when they hear it.
I like Valentine's Day for the kids. You know, they take their valentines to school and I like to see what they come home with.
I love plain Lays potato chips - that's like my favorite food.
I think God causes things to happen sometimes to get our attention. But I also know that God loves us and cares for us and knows the details in our lives.
If you listen to all of my records, they all have a little part of me. So there's a part of me that's very bluegrass-y, and incredibly country, because I grew up on a farm in Missouri - I grew up singing country music. I started in bluegrass - but then there's also so many other sides of me - really pop.
I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.
When I'm listening to a song, it's the lyrics and the stories they tell that matter most to me.
We had about 400 acres, and I'm legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.
It's a dream come true to surround myself with my own team and truly embrace my entrepreneurial spirit, taking complete control of my career and brand is so freeing.
I got signed to RCA when I was so young and made seven albums with them, plus a greatest hits album.
I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.
I've contributed a lot to country music.
I live with a calendar strapped to my butt. Seriously, I never go anywhere without my calendar, because I have to make sure I don't miss anything.
Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.
I always compare farming to being in the music industry, especially being an artist because you never know what the market's going to bring you.
It's so unfair on 'Dancing With the Stars,' because when the men celebrities are competing, all you look at is the females! So nobody really watches them. Then when you see the women stars competing, you're expecting them to look like the females and they just can't! It's an unfair advantage.
I had a great, long run with Sony Records, and had great relationships and lots of success.