Miranda Lambert Is Driven to ‘Build an Empire’

Miranda Lambert has been married just one month (to fellow country superstar Blake Shelton), but already the reigning ACM Female Vocalist of the Year is back at work -- and she wouldn't have it any other way.

"We got married and saw each other for a week, and I haven't seen him really since then," she jokes (quote via Country Weekly). "We passed in the hall earlier, but we're used to that. It's routine for us to have our time together and then separate and go be who we are, but I love it. People say it looks good on me, so it's great."

The singer-songwriter, who enjoyed a post-wedding 'staycation' at home with her new groom, followed by a few days of relaxation at Reba McEntire's Mexican villa, would rather be working on her expanding career than soaking up the sun.

"I feel like I need a break sometimes, but then I have one and I'm like, 'I want a gig!" she acknowledges. "It's very important to have that balance. Some part of me wants to be home for two months straight, but then part of me would go crazy, because I have a real strong drive to build an empire. That's what I'm trying to do, so to build an empire you don't take off work."

Miranda's days are filled with headlining her own tour, working on the follow-up to her platinum-selling album, 'Revolution' and developing her new all-girl group, Pistol Annies. But while she's following her own hugely-successful journey, as is her husband, it seems inevitable that their career paths would eventually converge, much like country music's other power couple, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. The 27-year-old says, however, she has other goals to focus on first.

"Right now it's so crazy because our careers have started to rise at the same time," explains the Texas native. "We're so focused on what is going on in our own careers right now that we're waiting to take that step. That's a big step to tour together. We'd have Faith and Tim's shoes to fill, and [their] Soul II Soul [tour] was huge. We'd want to make sure that we pick the right time. Not that I'm comparing it to that, it's just that we want it to be that big and that important. Until [then], we're not going to step out on that limb ... We've been taking it slow. Also, we're very different artists. The more we've grown, the more we've grown closer together musically, so it would make more sense for a tour."

Miranda's last single, 'Heart Like Mine,' made it all the way to the top of the charts. She is spending the next few weeks off the road before she picks up her tour again in July, which will take her to Maryland, South Carolina and New Hampshire. Keep track of her concert schedule here.