253 Quotes by Brad Paisley

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

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.'

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.