Brad Paisley Quotes

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

I hate being interviewed. I'm like, 'Aaaarrgghh!' I don't like talking about myself.

When I'm on a second date with a girl, I'll ask myself, 'Can I marry this person?' And we're just trying to decide between salmon and chicken.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

In America, going on a date is really more like 'interview night.' You have to give your resume.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

Interviews are difficult.

My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school - she was going to become a registered nurse - because she had to take care of me and my brother.

I'm really grateful for my mom. And my mom always raised me being a single mother. Being a single mother, a lot of stress comes with that. You gotta work, you gotta come home and do everything.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

Honestly, I have s much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to be single mother is just so courageous to me. It is such a hard job to raise a child and be everything to that child without a partner. It's just admirable and courageous and brave and every other valiant word I can think of. I don't know if I could do it on my own.