Sam Hunt Quotes

My music is about identity.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

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

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

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.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

My act is based on my life.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

I don't like to use my last name. I don't like it attached to things because people think you can just stamp your name on something, and it's not organic or that you're just doing it for money.

I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.