Hunter Hayes

“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. I...”

“I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.”

“I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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 goo...”

“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 livin...”

“As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.”

“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 am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.”

“I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.”

“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 w...”

“There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.”

“Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.”

“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 h...”

“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 twe...”

“In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!”

“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...”

“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...”