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I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Compromise
Time Relationship Long
Be Strong
Confident
Drawn
Struggled
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My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Mom
Guy
Louisiana
Accent
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Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Achievement
Lifetime
Massive
People
Spirit
Sweetest
Wonder
Hope Me People
Stevie
Meeting
Stevie Wonder
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The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Hundred
Nervous
Two
Years
Zone
Dates
Onstage
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I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Fantastic
Ferrari
Mean
Practicality
Love Good Car
Complete
Love Car Good
Wonderfully
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Causes
Competitiveness
Now And Then
Strange
Myself Me Know
String
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Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
The Only Thing
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I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Answers
Method
Stuff
Thinking
Proper
Scientific
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A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bass Guitar
Drummer
Guitar Player
Player
Thinking
Vocalist
Bass Player
Everybody Else
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Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriting
Vulnerability
Connection
Country Music
Performer
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My celebrity crush is not gonna find out who my celebrity crush is anytime soon. I'm so nervous! I may keep that to myself because if I do meet her and she already knows about it, that could be awkward.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Awkward
Crush
Nervous
Anytime
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I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Crew
Goal
Stupid
Arenas
Wanna
Buses
Headline
Putting
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I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Waking
Love Music Done
Love Music Remember
Deciding
Waking Up
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Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Birthday
Movie
Guitar
Invited
Louisiana
World
Apostle
Sixth
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Extra
Gave
Saw
Playing
Restaurant
Robert
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Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Grandmother
Growing Up
Heritage
Instruments
Louisiana
Accordion
Learning Music Me
Ended
Just Kind
Route
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Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Care
Long Distance
Long Distance Relationship
Views
Life Love Work
Admit
Experienced
Unfortunately
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There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Movement
People
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There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Yeah
Cool Love Music
Country Music
Love Cool Music
Younger People
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When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Demos
Invited
Finish
Grade
Seventh
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I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Care
Driven
Fans
Cares
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Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Editing
Needs
Price Tag
Tag
Cool Time Look
Photo
Price
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There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love weeks off, because I can go in the studio and just be creative again.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Love Time Myself
Weeks
Just Be
Something Fun
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Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bluegrass
Classic
Love Guitar World
Love Guitar Always
Demo
Drew
Element
Mandolin
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I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Awkward
Embrace
Knowing
Shy
Thinking
Time Best Work
Best Time Work
Best Work Time
Longest
Longest Time
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I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Cheer
Support
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'Wanted' is about a girl I was friends with, but at the time it was teetering on the edge of something more. I wanted to show her that I really cared about her. 'Wanted' was my way of saying, 'we're friends and have a great foundation, and this could be something really special.'
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Cared
Edge
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I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Black
Development
Mayer
Urban
Wonder
Broadened
Clint
Michael
Stevie
Gotten
Influences
Ray
Stevie Wonder
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When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Couple
Digging
Festivals
Gigs
Louisiana
Now And Then
Seven
Song
Touring
Weekend
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I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Best Way
Fun
Louisiana
People
Thinking
Best Music Culture
Centered
Introduced
Music Scene
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Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bluegrass
Classic
Way Home
Love Home Always
Somewhere
Demo
Drew
Element
Finding
Mandolin
Musically
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Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Critical
Rewriting
Spread
Time Myself Thinking
Translating
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I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Best Friend
Age
Appreciated
Forever
People
Twice
Amazing Thing
Heals
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I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Everyday
Fake
Guy
Media
Sake
Shy
Social Media
Voice
Naturally
Figured
Tweeting
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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Couple
Demos
Focused
Invited
Mobile
Parent
Shy
Years
Good Music Movies
Finish
Good Thing
Grade
Recording
Seventh
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I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Gears
Making Up
Stuff
Writing
Accordion
Demo
Gear
Instrument
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