When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
— Blake Shelton
I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.
I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.
Full-face helmets look stupid.
I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.
My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.
I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.
I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It's too hot, and you can't farm. You can't hunt.
I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.
Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!
If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.
I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.
Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.
I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.'
We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.
I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
My favorite television show has changed throughout the years. I used to think 'Married... With Children' was really funny. But now that I've gotten older, it's 'The Golden Girls,' believe it or not. That shows kills me.
The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.
Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.
I hate pigs. I hate goats.
I think that men should wear shoes that if there's an emergency, they're gonna be able to help.
I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.
I have family in Oklahoma City.
I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.
People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.
I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.
I'm very content with my life. I mean, who wouldn't be?
I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.
Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.
I'm not that crazy about how some of the men dress in Los Angeles.
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
I would not want to be Richard Simmons... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.
Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.
When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.
It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.
Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me.
God-dang-it, country music is my heart.
AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.
