Lady Antebellum Quotes
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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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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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Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
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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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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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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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The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never even thought about it until we had written 5, 6, 7 songs. Then we played our first show, and we all enjoyed it so much. We felt like it was something a special and different. So from there we decided to do Lady Antebellum.
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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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I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'
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I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.
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It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.
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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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I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.
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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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We actually added an extra electric guitar to beef up 'Need You Now', but we haven't changed any of this 'Own The Night' record at all for the international releases.
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You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.
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We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
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I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
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My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.
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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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I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
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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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I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!'
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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.