Quotes from Brad Paisley

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

If a little kid picks up Guitar Hero and learns 'Smoke On The Water,' he soon finds out that if he wants the chicks to look at him, he'd better learn it on the guitar!

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

I don't like being surrounded by yes men.

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you're back at the beginning. Love is never-ending.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

I'm not comfortable doing a covers album.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL's music. And I love him - we're blood brothers at this point. We've been through the fire together. I know no finer person.

When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario - but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it.

I live in the extremes.

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?