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" My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I'm writing songs. "

Chris Young

Home

Writing

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" 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'm a huge fantasy football fan. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture. "

" 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. "

" Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

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

Chris Young

Sing

Love

" 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. "

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

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

" 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!' "

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Man

Heard

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

" I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre. "

" 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. "

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Practice

People

" I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album. "

" 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

" 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. "

" In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept. "