Miranda Lambert Says Husband Blake Shelton Pulls Her Out of "Darkness"

On writing and singing her own songs: "Early on, an artist told me, 'Don't be yourself. Perform and be someone else. And I thought, 'That seems like exactly the opposite of what I should be doing.' Then I had people wanting me to adjust my lyrics to be more appealing to the masses or whatever. I said, 'No, that's bullsh*t.' I'd rather sell four copies of something that's real than four million copies of something that's fake."

On marriage: "I'm not sunshine and roses. Blake's the happiest person on the planet. He pulls me out of my darkness. . . . Literally everything is the best about being married."