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" 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
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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
Learning
Doing
Know
" 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
Say
Movies
Finish
" I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know? "
Hunter Hayes
Believe
Work
Start
" 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
Think
Respect
Play
" I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs. "
Hunter Hayes
Day
Up
Song
" I'm in my dream world. "
Hunter Hayes
Dream World
World
Dream
" Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time. "
Hunter Hayes
Hours
Fly
Go
" 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
Time
Relationship
Strong
" 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
Birthday
He
Thought
" I was addicted to playing music. "
Hunter Hayes
Playing
Music
Addicted
" 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
Christmas
Say
Parents
" 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
Girl
Fan
Care
" 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
Growing
Growing Up
Learning
" 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
Life
Work
Love
" 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
Mom
Lost
Best
" 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
Dreams
Support
Me
" I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time. "
Hunter Hayes
Time
I Am
Fan
" 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
Strange
Now
Myself
" The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again. "
Hunter Hayes
You
Want
Songwriting
" I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. "
Hunter Hayes
Shy
Best
Embrace
" 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
Age
Music
Hope
" 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
Fun
Best
Culture
" 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
Weekend
Play
People
" If I could make noise with anything, I was going to. "
Hunter Hayes
Noise
Anything
Going
" 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
Cool
Know
Love
" When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses. "
Hunter Hayes
School
Had
High School
" I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard. "
Hunter Hayes
Work
You
Work Hard
" Thank you to country radio for believing in me. "
Hunter Hayes
Thank You
Me
Believing
" I don't believe in making a record and rushing it. "
Hunter Hayes
Record
Believe
Making
" My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that. "
Hunter Hayes
You
Life
Day