Quotes from Kane Brown

It feels awesome to be a Guinness World Records title holder and to be the first artist to achieve this with Billboard. I remember being in elementary and middle school and looking at the books for all of the records, and I can't believe my name gets to be in there now.

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

Life's too short to hold grudges.

I get hurt when people talk bad about me because I'm not that person that will hurt anybody.

I'm not a mean person, so it kind of hurts when people are mean to me, but that's life.

Now that I'm with RCA, they were able to get radio on board, and it's just really awesome to see their support and 'What Ifs' going to No. 1.

My first impression when I heard 'Heaven' was, 'Do not let anyone else have that song! I'm putting it on hold.' I knew it was special from the first time I heard it, and I thought my fans would love it as much as I did.

In the first game I ever played in high school, I had a pick-six for a touchdown. That was a fun memory.

It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write with tracks, and other times, with acoustic guitars. That's been really a cool thing, because it brings out different lyrics with you.

A lot of people say I inspire them or I've helped them - kids who have been bullied in school or parents coming up to me because their kids have been bullied or anything that they've went through. It really touches me.

If you do get to know me, I'll tell everything to you. But I don't want to tell everything to the wrong people.

When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for traditional country. But the songs I was writing just weren't falling into that category.

I love to sing and never thought I'd be able to do it, and it happened for me.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

You put my voice on R&B melodies, on top of a real country band, and the sky's the limit.

I just like to see people smile.

I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.

That's something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We've done Gold before with 'Used To Love You Sober,' which I thought was awesome, but you don't realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.

Once I got to high school and hit my growth spurt, nobody really messed with me anymore.

I was on the road with my buddy Alex - he's my guitar player - and we watched the movie 'Click' by Adam Sandler. And I don't know why, but me and him just got in our feelings. And then we ended up calling our girls, and we were like, 'We're so sorry. We wish you were here!'

I kept my circle small. I had my friends that I knew wouldn't do anything to hurt me, and I would also stand up for them, and those are still my friends today.

I always like to appreciate any achievement but then try and figure out how to top that the next time.

I try to stay away from all negativity.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.