Quotes from Sam Hunt

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

I love so many styles of music.

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'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.

I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.

The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

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.