Quotes By Brad Paisley

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

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

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've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.

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

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

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

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.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

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.

With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.

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

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

My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.

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

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.

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

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.