Tyler Childers

Purgatory is hell, with hope.

— Tyler Childers

I listened to a lot of Ricky Skaggs' Country stuff.

— Tyler Childers

Love each other, no exceptions.

— Tyler Childers

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

I admire John Prine and his way with words.

— Tyler Childers

If your hobby is hunting, at the end of it you get to eat what you catch, which is awesome.

— Tyler Childers

The voice that I want to write in is a voice for me and mine and where I grew up.

— Tyler Childers

We've all witnessed violent acts of police brutality happen around the nation that have gone unaddressed.

— Tyler Childers

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

— Tyler Childers

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

— Tyler Childers

That's what music is supposed to do. It's supposed to help people out.

— Tyler Childers

I just liked the Beat poets. It was rapid fire, in the moment.

— Tyler Childers

The more it looks like home, the more I feel like people are understanding my accent.

— Tyler Childers

I hope that I'm doing my people justice and I hope that maybe someone from somewhere else can get a glimpse of…

— Tyler Childers

We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason.

— Tyler Childers

I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it…

— Tyler Childers

I'm chasing a feeling more than a sound and I try to reflect that in my turns of phrases. Growing up in…

— Tyler Childers

It doesn't make sense to move to one of the biggest-growing cities in the nation to sit in a room with 12…

— Tyler Childers

A lot of commercial country does speak to people in some way. It's more of a ear worm or a melody that's…

— Tyler Childers

Maybe I can bring my own perspective and connect with people from my home area by giving them my two cents of…

— Tyler Childers

The first thing that comes to your head is probably the only thing you should say. If you have to sit down…

— Tyler Childers

A lot of times, you'll be flipping through country radio and there's just no substance. Like I've said before, it's all about…

— Tyler Childers

Where I grew up, I feel lucky to have been from there. The culture in general is rooted with a strong sense…

— Tyler Childers

I've been listening to Stapleton for a long time. He's a hometown guy. I remember when I first heard word of him…

— Tyler Childers

I grew up on 23, country music highway, which is a stretch of road where Ricky Skaggs and Dwight Yoakam and Loretta…

— Tyler Childers

Storytelling in Appalachian culture - it runs deep. You have these communities and families that, for a long time, were isolated, and…

— Tyler Childers

The problem with country is we've turned the props into the play. Let's not just Solo cup and pickup truck it to…

— Tyler Childers

Although you'll seldom hear him do it, my dad sings really well. When I was a kid, we'd go hunting, and the…

— Tyler Childers

In my opinion, with political and religious views, how can you 110 percent, full-hearted say without a shadow of a doubt say…

— Tyler Childers

I really didn't like anything the way I liked playing music and writing songs.

— Tyler Childers

If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions.

— Tyler Childers

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

— Tyler Childers

Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant.

— Tyler Childers

Some of that church music, it's like this pure, raw, unfiltered emotion.

— Tyler Childers

Covid has been a strain on all of us in some form or fashion.

— Tyler Childers

I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse…

— Tyler Childers

I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but…

— Tyler Childers

There are different pockets of the rural U.S. and each one of those has their own colour, their own language, the things…

— Tyler Childers

When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the…

— Tyler Childers

I've grown up in church and Gospel music was a big thing - and Bluegrass - but I just think of that…

— Tyler Childers