Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I play a little bit of everything. I beat on the walls. I whistle. I scream. I go outside and scream because it sounds cool when it's recorded. I play drums on a chair. I snap, clap... just anything to build the track and make it feel like I want it to.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I didn't want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother's car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

For me, a good show is not a perfect show; it's just one where you connected. It's a show where the fans got to know you, and they realize that you're human, but they also think you're a star and that you're talented and all that good stuff.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

'Check Yes Or No' is a song that I reference in ''90s Country.' George Strait had a very crafty lyric: it tells a story then comes back around. Never gets old.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I get off on finding new ways to tell my wife 'I love you.'

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

When my voice isn't doing what I want it to do, it's crushing in the most heavy way possible.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I love clever lyrics.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

For 12 years, I was playing writer's rounds.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

All my life, I had loved music and been in choir, and I have a degree in music, but I never planned on doing it as a job. I had a realistic perspective on that. I thought maybe work at a church or be a teacher if you wanted to work in music.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I'm so honored to have so many supporters - from my peers to the industry to country radio - on this crazy journey with me. You all have absolutely changed my life.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

The last thing I want to do is just be another voice on country music radio.

Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes

I'm a tough, tough person. I always have been tough to embarrass, too.