Brett Young

“In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.”

“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.”

“There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.”

“There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important.”

“For me, I never really understood why certain lines had to be crossed in order to get a point across. There's a PG way to say everything, in my opinion.”

“Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.”

“I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'”

“'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.”

“I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.”

“I'm very approachable and want to meet everybody.”

“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.”

“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.”

“John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.”

“I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.”

“I have always been a super-emotional dude.”

“I have the same blankie that I've had since childhood.”

“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.”

“I love to be able to tell a whole story in three-and-half minutes.”

“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.”