A biography for Walker Hayeshasn’t been written yet.
“'You Broke Up With Me' was fun yet definitely addressed an inner emotion of mine.”
“Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you're like, 'Wow, he's singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he's yelling, 'You're so pretty!''”
“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.”
“I felt the pressure to let go of music. I was like, 'It's just a hobby. It's just a dream I'm hanging on to, and my kids don't deserve having me have trouble taking care of them.'”
“You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.”
“You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'”
“I've never been afraid to work for money; it's just - it got tough there to work and to write songs at the same time.”
“I love clever lyrics.”
“I love lyrics that are not too clever.”
“I love to people watch.”
“My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'”
“That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.”
“I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from the heart.”
“I love to watch my kids when they don't know I'm watching.”
“I like artists with a life, where it's not this universal thing anybody could sing. I want them speaking to me in only a way that they can. To me, that's what makes it good.”
“I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.”
“I'm not a churchgoer.”
“That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'”
“'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.”
“People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.”