Brett Young quotes

1. My dad’s a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it’s really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I’ve never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day.
5. The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.
6. I don’t really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a mother and daughter, a teenage girl and her mom, to be able to come to the show and both enjoy it on the same level.
7. I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
8. 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.
9. It’s always helpful to put things down on paper. That’s why I started writing.
10. 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.
11. I have to be inspired to write a song.
12. 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.
13. I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can — and, in my opinion, should — be.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. I’m personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.
19. It’s funny how God will change your plans for you when he’s ready.
20. 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.