Quotes from Brett Young

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a mother and daughter, a teenage girl and her mom, to be able to come to the show and both enjoy it on the same level.

I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.

I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be.

For me, I never really understood why certain lines had to be crossed in order to get a point across. There's a PG way to say everything, in my opinion.

There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important.

When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.

'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.

It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.

I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.

If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters.

I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.

I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

I try not to take any liberties when it comes to being factual. Sometimes you have to, just to make the song sound good. But I feel like, personally, if you've lived it, then you shouldn't stretch the truth. It should be that experience.

I have always been a super-emotional dude.

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.