"He's just a living legend," Lambert said of Merle Haggard. "Just in general as an artist and as a writer, he's real honest, he's always talked openly about his troubles and being in prison and he really lived the songs he wrote, and I loved the honesty in his music. I think that's where I get my love of just honest country music, is from Merle Haggard."

"It was just so crazy to be sitting in [Lynn's] kitchen and talking about family and road stories," Lambert said. "You're sitting there and talking like, to a friend, and then you all of a sudden go, 'oh my gosh, that's Loretta Lynn,' so definitely it was kind of a life-changing moment for me because I just realized how blessed I was and how I thought I was looking at the big picture of my career and hanging out with Loretta just made me widen my spectrum even more. You know I definitely want to be, not doing this for 20 years, but doing it for 50."

"I was recording with [John Fogerty] last week in the studio," Lambert said. "Obviously I'm a huge CCR fan and have been doing a Fogerty song since I started a band in every set I've ever done so getting to work with him just totally revamped my creativity."

"I went and saw a Garth Brooks concert when I was 10, it was the first concert I ever saw, and something sparked inside me that night," Lambert said.

"My first musical memory is probably of my dad playing guitar in my house," Lambert said. "Favorite song of all time, the one he would sing a lot to me as a little girl. That meant a lot to me. He was a singer songwriter so it just seems like I've always been hearing him downstairs or sitting around with him at a fire at a party or something with him playing guitar since I was born."