Brett Young and his wife Taylor welcomed their first child, a daughter, into the world earlier this week, and with her birth, Brett says he hopes to be the same kind of father that his dad was to him.
"I'm fortunate to be able to say this and mean it – there are way more than one quality in my dad that I would hope to embody or be able to, 20 years from now have my daughter say about me," the "Here Tonight" singer shares in a statement from his label. "I think the one thing about my dad, aside from being supportive of everything that I've ever done no matter what it was, is his genuine excitement.
"There are people that you're going to meet in your lives where they're excited and pleasant all the time and it feels really fake and kind of contrived, and my dad borders on that. He's so excited and pleasant all the time, but it's genuine every single time.
"He's uplifting and encouraging, and that trait in him is what always made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do because he always told me I could," he continues. "And it seemed like he believed it, so it made me believe it, so I hope that that's something that I have for her."
