Brad Paisley Quotes

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I'm courageous in my love for the Kardashians.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.

If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

It occurred to me that by naming the film itself 'Dear White People,' I could tap into the burgeoning meme culture as well as make a meta-commentary about the controversies within the film.

The Kesha Lyrics to hit song 'Tik Tok' are a cry for help.

People who like my stuff and know what my agenda is have never mistaken me for being racist or poking fun at the wrong thing.

I've always thought that 'Dear White People' should live on as a TV show, so I'll leave it at that.

Like 'Love/Hate,' maybe 'Taken Down' can get people talking as well.

Every time Maradona speaks it makes life difficult for everyone and there are those of us who don't agree with that, not when he talks about football, but rather about people.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.' And I say, 'How can I be racist? Isn't racism exclusionary? If all of you are offended, that means I'm including every race in my jokes.'

When you've done it long enough - I've done something like 21 World Series - just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.