Blake Shelton Quotes

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

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.

I hate reality shows. But if I had to be on one, I'd have to say 'Realtree Road Trips' on the Outdoor Channel.

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.

Don't bother tellin' me what I've got comin' in the morning ... I already know. I've got some feel good pills and a red Gatorade by my bed, ready to go!

And I'm no quitter, but I'm tired of fighting.

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours.

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.

Full-face helmets look stupid.

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.

I like bubble baths.

I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that.

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.

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 never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.

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 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 want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

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.

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.

Wait a second. Don't take my vibrations away.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

Help!!!! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?!!!!

I don't give a crap about clowns.

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.

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.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

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.

I'm never going to listen to someone trash my wife.

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

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.

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.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

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.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

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.

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.

Your relationship should erase your tears, not your smile.

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 always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.

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.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

Maroon 5 are worldwide stars.

Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

You'll be my glass of wine
I'll be your shot of whiskey

Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.

Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be.

When you're married to Miranda Lambert, you've gotta give her her room because she's a powerful force. I think it's more about just listening and understanding who she is and what her insecurities may be and how to approach our marriage as an open minded listener and a shoulder to lean on.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

God-dang-it, country music is my heart.

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

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.

If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours / I should've listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn't have taken me so long / To know where I belong

No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.

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 driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.

I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

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!