"Before anything can start over, something that's been has to end. I'm ready to be a beginner, that's why I love winter." (Winter / Fred Wilhelm, Luke Sheets, Ryan Kinder)
"Then I looked at the lists and tried to combine my likes and dislikes into titles. My least favorite food of all time is watermelon and my least favorite alcohol is moonshine … I think I turned those lists into a handful of titles, but ‘Watermelon Moonshine’ is the only one I ever resonated with enough to try writing it." (Josh Kear / billboard.com, June 8, 2023)
"His new single is just such an experiment. It will probably get a cleaner edit before it gets sent to country radio, but the album version is a different animal altogether. Featuring heavily distorted vocals, instrumental breaks, and a darker, more aggressive tone, the song proves that the middle of the road isn't someplace Kane Brown feels comfortable staying in for too long." (975country.com, March 2023)
"And the song starts with the mockingbird and it's about how I am from Mississippi, which the state bird is the mocking bird. Like I am a mockingbird and I repeat things that I have heard my whole life and that's part of my songwriter thing and who I am. Then the song slowly transitions into the crow which is the rock'n'roll character that flies its own path." (Hardy / Instagram, October 10, 2022)
"But it is our job as artists to sing about things that people are [sometimes] scared to talk about. Domestic abuse is a fragile subject, but I hope this song brings light to a situation that is more common than we’d like to admit. For the abusers, I hope this song haunts them. For the victims, I hope they know they’re not alone." (Lainey Wilson / tennessean.com, August 26, 2022)