A biography for Charles Kelleyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“There's definitely been some songs in the past that we've put out, and it was purely us going, 'Okay, we think radio will play this. We think this will be a hit. This will be big for the show,' and all this stuff. But it's like, do you really believe in it?”
“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.”
“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.”
“I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“With Lady Antebellum, there's always pressure. It's hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you're making decisions.”
“To me, the best music always comes when - it sounds cliche, but you just try to block out the noise and try to not have any pressure with it and take your time.”
“'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.”
“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.”
“Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.”
“I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.”
“The country crowd just has fun.”
“We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.”
“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.”
“I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.”
“It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.”
“It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.”