Hunter Hayes Quotes

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.

I don't like to rush my music.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse.

I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it." But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.