“Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They aske...” — Chris Young Quote

Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.

I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.

At the tight end position, you're asked to do so many things. You'll see me split out wide singled up like a wide receiver.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'