She's definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I'm a mama's boy.
Brantley Gilbert
I don't need anything to have a good time or be a hell-raiser. I was born one.
Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.
I love Eighties rock.
I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.
Songwriting is therapeutic for me.
Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
I don't write about anything I haven't been through.
I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.
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.
I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.
I just hope my songs mean enough to people. And I feel like you have to live to learn.
I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.
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.
I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.
There's nothing like having somebody that loves every single bit of you, and that you love the same way, to actually, really share it with.
A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve; I do that in more ways than one.
I don't try to be somebody I'm not.
I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.
I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.
I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.
Cardio's not really my deal.
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.
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.
If a really, really pretty girl needs a ride home, I'm your guy.
We're gonna raise some big bucks and breed 'em and that sorta thing. Pretty excited about that.
I'm not real good at surfing, and I'm terrified of sharks. That's, like, one of my main fears. Snakes, sharks, deep water, and commitment. I think those are my four big ones.
My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.
I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.
My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.
If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
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 rap music can get repetitive.
My fiancee's the one that's picture worthy.
The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.
It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don't support my interests.
I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.
I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.
I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.
I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.
There's no smoke and mirrors here.
