62 Quotes by Charles Kelley

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.

We’re definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock – the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side – her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he’s a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

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.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, ‘Just a Kiss’ is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

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.

I’m not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it – golf, HGTV, football.

We’re putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

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.