If a really, really pretty girl needs a ride home, I'm your guy.
— Brantley Gilbert
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 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.
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.
When it came to country, I loved the stories.
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
A lot of rap music can get repetitive.
I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.
I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real.
I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.
My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.
Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.
For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.
If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.
I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.
A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.
Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.
I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.
My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.
When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.
When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'
The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.
I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.
I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.
I stay on the road so much that my fiancee and I were talking the other night about what I wanted her to cook. I told her I don't even remember what a home-cooked meal is.
There's no smoke and mirrors here.
Songwriting is therapeutic for me.
A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.
When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
I'm a very happy man. I've seen how bad it can get, and I'm sure it could get worse if I let it, but all that made me appreciate where I am. Plus, I'm married to a very hot woman who got away.
I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.
I'm honored the folks and Bendon understood why I wanted to work with them and Toys for Tots.
I love Eighties rock.
I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.
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.
From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.
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 like being different.
If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.
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.
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
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.
