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.
I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'
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.
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 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'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.
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.
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.
That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.
