Maren Morris

And I was like, are you pissed that Beyonce's here?

Are you pissed that the chicks are back?

Cause like you still have this 20 year weird ass grudge.

Yeah, probably both.

But I was just like living my best life that night.

And it just, something changed in me.

Cause I was like, Oh wow, I'm celebrating my work tonight.

I'm being celebrated, but I'm also like,

these people are really meaningful to me and my music and my, my statehood.

And they're already like, even in person, I see people bristling.

And I was just like, kind of inspired by that.

And I just, I took that with me and I don't know if I've ever stopped, but I just don't want like greed or cowardice or bigotry ever in the biography that my grandchildren read about me.

And so it won't be.

Yeah, I think just being from the South and having gay friends in a very conservative town, I just never saw bravery like that.

It just was astounding to me even as a young kid.

the fear that must instill in people.

And some people never come out of the closet because it's just more comfortable to, to, to live in that sort of, I don't know, not inauthentic, but safer in their minds and just like get through life and get over it.

I mean, it's really sad, but I, um, I think just it, it got bigger for me when I moved to Nashville and I started working with, um, other people in the queer community that have the same kind of background of me.

Like

you know, just from the South, got out, but like remains really proud of that like background because so much of like just the food and the music, like Texas music is so diverse.