Brantley Gilbert

I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away. ”

I love Eighties rock. ”

I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real. ”

A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack. ”

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life. ”

What you see is what you get, and the majority of people in my life that loan me clothes know that they've never seen me in a suit. ”

I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through. ”

You meet people in the business and wonder how compassionate they are. ”

It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me. ”

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters. ”