Quotes from Brad Paisley

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

I don't want to be hurtful to anyone.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

A hat has to be shaped to a person's face so it fights just right. It has to be done right. If you put my hat on, with my shape, you'd look like an idiot. If the bill is too high or too saggy, you look like a European tourist going to their first country concert.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

I'm sick of feeling like we're in a decline. Let's look at the good.

If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to another city, then do your best to see it. Because I just think that's the best way to have an interesting life.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

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 jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

That was my trick. I interned a lot.

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.