Charles Kelley Quotes

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.

Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened a year before he died, when he came to visit me while I was teaching at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.

I really love that song. I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about. So when you play it, it takes people back to a certain place. That's what I wanted for 'Torn.'

My dad had 'Mad at You' down on the guitar before I even had finished the production on the record... he learned it within, like, five minutes.

And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

For a little kid like me, growing up in Carle Place, you put on John Lee Hooker late at night, and it's a different reality. I try to feel that music from the inside out because I was really attracted to it.

My dad is literally - and I love him so much - he is my number one fan.

You know, I went through the whole blond hair bit. And dad took me to see The Police when I was 13. And I was like, this is a cool band, dad. See this is a cool band. And I felt bad for years because then a year later... I never had a chance to tell him how great I think was. After he passed away, I would go and listen to his music.

The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on 'Clocks' on my discman, and I fell in love.

I'm spiritual, too, but 'Gitty Up' is a great song, know what I mean?

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

My dad always had me sing alongside him while he played guitar. He taught me how to harmonize to an old song of his, 'Missing You.'

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.

I have such strong memories of my Daddy.

I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.