Dave Haywood

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

— Dave Haywood

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

— Dave Haywood

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that…

— Dave Haywood

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with…

— Dave Haywood

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to…

— Dave Haywood

At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel…

— Dave Haywood

We actually added an extra electric guitar to beef up 'Need You Now', but we haven't changed any of this 'Own The…

— Dave Haywood

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

— Dave Haywood

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has…

— Dave Haywood

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will…

— Dave Haywood

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read,…

— Dave Haywood

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves.…

— Dave Haywood

It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire…

— Dave Haywood

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a…

— Dave Haywood

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

— Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to…

— Dave Haywood

The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never…

— Dave Haywood

We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the…

— Dave Haywood