Brantley Gilbert

“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.”

“I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.”

“When it came to country, I loved the stories.”

“There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.”

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

“I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.”

“I'm sticking true to my roots.”

“We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.”

“I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.”

“A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.”

“It's a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.”

“Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.”

“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.”

“When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'”

“I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.”

“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 always go to my mom's house for Christmas.”

“Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.”