Chart success is not as important to LeAnn Rimes as having "fun." The singer promises a more powerful 2024 music, but said she's not in the lookout for more than anything but something fun.
The 41-year-old singer, who started her career at the age of nine, would much rather focus on achieving her creative goals; a successful commercial outcome will be a bonus.
As she stated to the British magazine HELLO!, "At this point, it's more about, 'What do I want to create? What light me up and what's fun?' "If I do something I love and the achievements come along with it, great.
"I couldn't be more proud of where I'm at as a songwriter, the messages I'm conveying and the mark I'm leaving with my music. I think it's more powerful than ever."
This is quite different from how sad Leann Rimes was last year. She expressed sadness about postponing certain holiday gigs over her vocal chords issues and then some insiders said she's struggling also with anxiety and depression. Some said she's fearful of losing her career, being the breadwinner of her family and all.
The singer of "Can't Fight the Moonlight," who was nominated for a Grammy Award at the age of 14, didn't realize how "unusual" her upbringing was until much later in life, when she was able to compare it to that of her stepsons, Jake, 16, and Mason, 20, the children of her husband Eddie Cibrian.
She said, "Mine was definitely an unusual childhood but it wasn't until I got much older that I understood how unusual It was. "I was homeschooled out of sixth grade and finished high school while I was on the road, so I would do four hours of school a day and a gazillion interviews, and then a show at night. "It was a lot, but it was normal for me."
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"Having my stepsons in my life from when they were two and six and seeing their very normal childhood was the first time I really understood how different I was."
When LeAnn is not employed, she lives a very private existence.
She said: "When I'm off the road, I just love to be home and enjoy life in my sweats. "We travel and get out into nature a lot, which keeps me grounded. That's super important."
This is probably why she's been very sympathetic with Britney Spears last year.
She spoke out against people "making money" off Spears, 41, in a new interview. She discussed the singer's difficult career journey and compared it to her own tough road.
"I saw the Britney Spears documentary and was thinking, like, all these people that make money out of her and she has nothing to do with it," Rimes told The Times. "It's just soul-sucking. That poor girl. That poor woman, really."
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