Quotes from Charles Kelley

I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.

It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.

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.

The country crowd just has fun.

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.

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.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'

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 think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.

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.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.

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.

One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.

When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.

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.

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.

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.

'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.

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.

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.