Bryan Hayes famous quotes

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.
-- Bryan Hayes

#Growing Up #School #Fans

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.
-- Bryan Hayes

#Writing #Long #Bars

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.
-- Bryan Hayes

#Drinking #Beer #Night

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.
-- Bryan Hayes

#Song #Life Changing #Inspiration

I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.
-- Bryan Hayes

#Song #Guy #Fans

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.
-- Bryan Hayes

#Texas #Sides #Crosses

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.

I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.