When Brantley Gilbert first gained fame he was labeled a tough guy by some, mostly he says, “because I handed it to them on a silver platter.”
Brantley says he wasn’t really trying to impress a lot of people, plus, the fact that he was using and drinking made him a “rough dude.” Now though, his idea of what it means to be tough has totally changed.
“I had a big misconception of what tough was,” he says. “I thought tough was being physically tough and I found through the years that being tough is more about being emotionally and morally tough.”