Zitat des Tages von Brett Young:
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.
It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.
It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.
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.
It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.
'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.
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.
The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.
I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.
I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be.
I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.
I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.
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.
I have always been a super-emotional dude.
I've never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day.
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.
My first concert was Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey.
We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.
It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!
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.