Sam Hunt Quotes

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

This album is my life, and my life's really not that interesting. It's not "not interesting," but I'm just some dude just like everyone else. But by recording it in an album format, it becomes a product. That's the idea of Built on Glass; it's the relationship between my personal life and the music I make.

All my songs are where I am.

I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.