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" I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations. "
Hunter Hayes
Chance
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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. "
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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. "
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" If I could make noise with anything, I was going to. "
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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder. "
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" I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know? "
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Start
" My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that. "
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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. "
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Love
" I'm in my dream world. "
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World
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" The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again. "
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" I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid. "
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" I am blessed beyond belief. "
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" When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses. "
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" I truly believe that when you've found the one you're searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You're better for it. "
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" I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything. "
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Anything
" All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could. "
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" My favorite song depends on the day, what I'm going through, what I'm feeling. "
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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. "
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" Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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.' "
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