Top 30 Scotty McCreery Quotes

I don’t think you’d call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

What makes me unique is that I’m normal.

I’m a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it’s so surreal.

The road is a fun place, and it’s a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the ‘rock n’ roll temptations,’ there’s not much of that with me.

It’s a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled ‘Roller Coaster’, up and down all the time.

Country music is me, it’s what I’ve grown up with, and it’s what I do.

I was watching the show last year and it didn’t even cross my mind that this could even happen.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you’ve never met, you’re pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it’s a really weird feeling.

I gotta get a truck.

When you’re out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you’ll face some backlash. But mostly, I’ve received support.

I love Florida Georgia Line. I love ‘Round Here.’ So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn’t listening to country music before is listening to ‘Cruise’ on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it’s a good thing for the genre.

I don’t speak Spanish. I’ve done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

I’m sure those rumors are spread, but it’s just ah – we’re really good friend. We’ve been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we’ve been together in school. We’ve gotten really close, but I don’t know about the more than friends stuff.

I was an Elvis freak. That’s all I listened to growing up.

It’s so surreal being here.

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I’m going to work school around my music – not music around my school.

I’ve told many people that I’m not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I’m ‘Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.’ If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that’s all I want.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I’ve had since I started pitching, you’ll see ‘Philippians 4:13’ written on the brim. That’s the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can’t do it all by yourself. You can’t do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that’s why I looked up to him so much.

Just the title of ‘American Idol’ is something that people can look up to. I’m not Saint Scott, I’m not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

I don’t want to put anyone down, but you won’t see any twerking from me.

You gotta ‘be’ country music – you can’t just sing it.

I love singin’ in the car, it just makes me feel good.

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called ‘Christmas in Heaven’ about missing someone that you love that’s passed on, and wondering what’s going on up there on Christmas.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

I’ve dealt with losing close ones before, and I’ve been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it’s important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you’re going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.