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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
Me
Achievement
People
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Music
Hope
" 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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Play
People
" 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. "
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Dreams
Support
Me
" I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.' "
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Know
Me
" 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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Learning
Doing
Know
" 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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Believe
Become
Better
" I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything. "
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Never
Prom
Anything
" All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe. "
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Enough
Band
Family
" Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete. "
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Live
Singing
Sing
" 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
Science
Think
Question
" 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
Writing
Saying
Thinking
" 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
" 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. "
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Fun
Love
Myself
" 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 at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs. "
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Day
Up
Song
" 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 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. "
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Mom
Lost
Best
" I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around. "
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Gear
Around
Music
" 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
" 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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Say
Movies
Finish
" I'm in my dream world. "
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Dream World
World
Dream
" To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that. "
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Shirt
Your
Name
" I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool. "
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Cool
Picture
Need
" 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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Birthday
He
Thought
" 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
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" I am blessed beyond belief. "
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Am
Belief
I Am Blessed