Brett Young Quotes
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If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.
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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
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John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.
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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.
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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.
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The first country song I ever heard was Tim McGraw's 'Don't Take the Girl.'
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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.
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I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.
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My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.'
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It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
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I have to be inspired to write a song.
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I have the same blankie that I've had since childhood.
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I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'
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I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.
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I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.
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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.
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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.
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It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.
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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.
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I get to share the stage with some of the best.
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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.
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I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream.
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When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.