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I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.
When I was 16, it was 1988, and my style was a mess. Fur-lined brown suede jacket, paisley shirt, chinos, and Doc Martens. My hair was blow dried into a large quiff. That might sound vaguely cool. It wasn’t.
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley’s, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift – those people can really pen great stuff.
I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone’s wearing it. I’m basically styling America.
Liverpool manager Bob Paisley signed me from Crewe in 1981. We were the champions in my first season and I went on to win many honours.
On No Doubt’s second visit to Paisley Park, sometime around 1999, we were working on a song with Prince called Waiting Room,’ which would later be released on our Rock Steady album.
When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.
I was obsessed with vintage stuff, I was obsessed with sort of the old lady floral patterns and like Paisley stuff.
I’ve had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.
Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 to govern together, both of us understood that we weren’t going to change our views but that we had to work with one another if we were to end the conflict and move forward.
My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
I’ve always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.
I remember wearing old long johns, my dad’s silk paisley dressing gown, chopped off at the waist, and lots of crucifixes – trying to look like Madonna. But I wasn’t breaking any moulds, I was just trying to follow somebody else.
People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.
My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that’s the way to do it. I went along, and I immediately found something I was passionate about and really enjoyed.
When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.
I’d like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I’d need building up, though he’s very frail now.
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
I wouldn’t be as comfortable with who I am if it had not been for Prince. I mean, my label ‘Wondaland’ would not exist without ‘Paisley Park’ coming before us.
If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
I’m in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I’m on that night, whether it’s the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I’ve ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that’s unforgettable every night.
When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids – and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.
Paisley offered me and my family a life, way back, and it has continued to do so.
As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
If the word ‘No’ was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
My nana is a real life mentor, and so is Brad Paisley and a few other idols in country music.
The first time I did everything was in Paisley – the first time I went to the pictures or the bowling or the ice rink or the swimming baths.
When I was a kid, I loved really loud things. My grandmother and I went to the Fulton Mall, and I bought a three-piece suit that was paisley. Paisley over the whole suit. I was 6 and thought it was great. My mother took a photo of me in it, sent it to my grandmother, and burned the suit.
I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.
