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Miranda Lambert: 'It's OK to make mistakes because you learn from them'

Songstress Miranda Lambert has revealed that she learned from a young age that it's fine to make mistakes and to acknowledge that nobody's perfect

Speaking to ELLE magazine, the songstress explained that she grew up with strong female influences and learned a lot from both her mother and grandmother:

"Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well. My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson. We try to hold ourselves to such high - sometimes impossible - expectations. I think it's OK to make mistakes and learn from them and be who you are."

Lambert, meanwhile, also opened up about her record industry beginnings and confessed that she went out of her way not to change: "When I first started out I was 17. I was 17 to 20 when I was writing my first record. When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses.' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I want to be heard, not seen."

 

"People were like, 'Well, you know, you need to kind of be flexible on that,' and I just wasn't at all. Looking back on it, it was a little extreme, but I really stuck to it. Luckily it worked, but even if it didn't, I always knew that I'd be able to sleep at night."

 

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