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.
From Sam Hunt
It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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.
It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
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 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.
You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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