Hunter Hayes Quotes

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

I don't write for fame or money, I simply want to share my experiences.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' And if you're able to say yes, in any field, you've won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

I write a song for me and I sing a song for me - no one else.