Sam Hunt
I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
My golf game is lacking big time.
I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.
I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.
Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
I love so many styles of music.