Charles Kelley

Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.

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

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

I always believe that if you put it out there in the universe and you believe in it, you will stuff to happen.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.

One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.

With Lady Antebellum, there's always pressure. It's hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you're making decisions.

If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

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

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

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 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.