Charles Kelley Quotes
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Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
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I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.
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In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
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I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
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We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.
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Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.
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'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.
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When I come home and have a new song I've written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.
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I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
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I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.
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I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.
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One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.
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It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.
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With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.
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The country crowd just has fun.
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We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
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I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.
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I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
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If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
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The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.
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One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.
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There's always expectation with a Lady A single.
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I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.