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" I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me. "
Hunter Hayes
Think
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Even
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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. "
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Day
" 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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" 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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" Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time. "
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" I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything. "
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Never
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Anything
" My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. "
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Growing
" 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. "
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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.' "
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Cool
Know
Love
" I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time. "
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Time
I Am
Fan
" I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar. "
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Learning
Guitar
Theory
" 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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Saying
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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. "
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Country
You
Connection
" I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.' "
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First
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Wrote
" I'm in my dream world. "
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Dream World
World
Dream
" I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard. "
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Work
You
Work Hard
" 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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You
Life
Day
" 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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Find
You
Two
" 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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Write
Far
Like
" When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses. "
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School
Had
High School
" I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. "
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Shy
Best
Embrace
" 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. "
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Growing
Growing Up
Learning
" 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. "
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Strange
Now
Myself
" My favorite song depends on the day, what I'm going through, what I'm feeling. "
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Going
Through
Song
" 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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Weekend
Play
People
" 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. "
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Science
Think
Question
" I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid. "
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Love
Kid
" 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. "
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He
Thought
" I love flying planes. "
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Love
Flying
I Love
" 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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Age
Music
Hope
" I don't believe in making a record and rushing it. "
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