I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.
— Blake Shelton
I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'
I like bubble baths.
I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad.
I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.
I hate reality shows. But if I had to be on one, I'd have to say 'Realtree Road Trips' on the Outdoor Channel.
If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.
The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.
One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.
The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.
I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.
I don't give a crap about clowns.
My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.
I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.
I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.
Raffles are no fun.
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.
Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.
I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.
I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.
When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.
I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.
I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.
I don't ask other artists for too much advice.
The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
I do know a good singer when I hear one.
As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.
What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.
I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.
I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.
I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.
The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.
No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.
Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.
I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.
Maroon 5 are worldwide stars.
I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'
My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.
Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.
I've never played it safe on my own music.
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.
I'm never going to listen to someone trash my wife.
