Brad Paisley

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality. ”

I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers. ”

I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.' ”

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests. ”

I don't feel like I have a legacy. ”

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity. ”

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there. ”

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

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance. ”

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ”