Hunter Hayes Quotes

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

I think I am very anti-social.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.

Song-writing in general, and vocally I've learnt a lot about myself. I want to get better and keep learning.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead