Brad Paisley

I'm not comfortable doing a covers album. ”

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh. ”

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects. ”

I don't like being surrounded by yes men. ”

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home. ”

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

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. ”

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

You have different stages in your career where you have different things to prove. And early on, like most people who move to Nashville, I wanted to prove that I belonged here, that I belonged in this format, that I had a love for it. ”

I still cherish relationships that I made early on as much as anything in my life. ”