Biography

His duet with Alison Krauss, 'Whiskey Lullaby', was awarded with Best Vocal Event and Best Music Video from the Country Music Association in 2004. He'd won the award Best Music Video previously in 2002 for 'I'm Gonna Miss Her'.

His favorite author is Mark Twain.

Was nominated and won an ACM for Best Vocal Performance for, "When I Get Where I'm Going" with Dolly Parton.

Brad and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, became the parents of their first child, a boy named William Huckleberry Paisley, in Nashville on February 22, 2007.

He attended and graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee with a degree in Music Business

I can't even imagine what Hank Garland would have become had he not been in that accident. You're talking about 40 years of lost innovation that could have come only from him.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.