Brett Young

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream. ”

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. ”

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to. ”

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. ”

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