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" I'm a big fan of breakfast food. Literally, the simplest thing in the world - if you can scramble eggs without burning them, I'll eat them. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is. "

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" My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling. "

Chris Young

Story

Feeling

Own

" When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!' "

Chris Young

Man

Heard

" My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas. "

" It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less. "

Chris Young

Better

Answer

" For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise. "

" I grew up loving Vince Gill. That guy sounds just like his record - or better than his record. I've always been such a fan. "

Chris Young

Better

Always

" The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!' "

" I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup. "

" I go home, and there's dust on everything because I'm never there. "

Chris Young

Home

Because

" I'm a huge fantasy football fan. "

" I'm a sucker for a sad song. "

" Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well. "

" I'm really loud. I can't sing softly. "

" I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords. "

" Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive. "

" Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosmith records. 'Love in an Elevator,' 'Rag Doll,' all that stuff was really great music. It's something that I still dig and go back and listen to. "

" Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay. "

Chris Young

Practice

People

" There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it. "

Chris Young

Know

Song

" Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song. "

" If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me. "

Chris Young

Patience

You

" One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. to Miami' album. There were so many things on there - 'Miami, My Amy,' 'Ten Feet Away,' 'Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her.' I can put that album on repeat and listen. "

" The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can. Because it's never gonna hurt, and when you run into that problem of, 'God, I don't know what I want to say,' or the opposite problem of, 'I know exactly what I want to say, but no one has written it,' then you can just go write it yourself. "

" We always pray before we go on stage. It's just something that I've always done. For me, it's a big thing, and the guys in the band seem to appreciate doing it, so we do it at every show. "

" My family and I are very close, and they mean more than anything to me, but I'm also the kind of guy who likes to go out with my friends and have a good time on Friday nights. "

Chris Young

Friends

Friday

" Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights. "

" For every single show you do, make sure you go out and literally try to beat what you did the day before. It's something that you can incorporate into everything you do. If you're constantly trying to beat your best, over time it will help you grow. "

" I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am. "

" I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else. "

" Finding new books to read and relaxing is what I enjoy when I do have some time to spend on my own. "

" I really love something that's strong vocally and a little more difficult to sing because it's fun. "

Chris Young

Sing

Love