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" 'Wanted' is about a girl I was friends with, but at the time it was teetering on the edge of something more. I wanted to show her that I really cared about her. 'Wanted' was my way of saying, 'we're friends and have a great foundation, and this could be something really special.' "

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" 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. "

Hunter Hayes

Fun

Love

Myself

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

" All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could. "

" I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know? "

" All the people I hung out with were musicians. "

" Thank you to country radio for believing in me. "

Hunter Hayes

Thank You

Believing

" 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. "

" My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that. "

" I'm in my dream world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like driving around town and listening to new records. "

" 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

" I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Achievement

People

" Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete. "

" 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

" 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 help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool. "

" I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to. "

" I was addicted to playing music. "

" 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. "

" I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Hunter Hayes

Voice

Media