I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse Stewart. They became an inspiration for how I wanted my writing voice to be. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
That's what music is supposed to do. It's supposed to help people out. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I hope that I'm doing my people justice and I hope that maybe someone from somewhere else can get a glimpse of the life… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
The voice that I want to write in is a voice for me and mine and where I grew up. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but if I'm… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Some of that church music, it's like this pure, raw, unfiltered emotion. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it all ain't… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Born Again' is a love song. It's just these two people - two forms of energy - meeting and losing each other and finding… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
There are different pockets of the rural U.S. and each one of those has their own colour, their own language, the things they're worried… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
