Top 35 Brett Young Quotes

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.

The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you’re going to do it until it works.

I love to be able to tell a whole story in three-and-half minutes.

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer’s town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.

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

I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn’t really getting any better.

I have always been a super-emotional dude.

It’s funny how God will change your plans for you when he’s ready.

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

It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!

The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that – you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is – I don’t know how to describe it.

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.

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.

I always say, ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.’ I couldn’t be happier with where I ended up and how it worked out.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it’s less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

I have the same blankie that I’ve had since childhood.

John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

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

Country music isn’t about being better than the guy next to you – it’s just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.

While I don’t feel like I’m an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.

My first concert was Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey.

I don’t know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it’s kind of like, dare to dream.

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

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 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 get to share the stage with some of the best.

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

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

It’s really hard to chase a lofty dream.

The first country song I ever heard was Tim McGraw’s ‘Don’t Take the Girl.’

I think I realized my parents’ relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.

I’ve always been pretty in touch with what I’m feeling.

Gavin DeGraw – his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.

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.