Tyler Childers

When I was younger, I had two of mine own cassette tapes that I burnt up, like constantly I was always listening…

— 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 admire John Prine and his way with words.

— 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

Long Violent History' is a collection of instrumental pieces intended to create a sonic soundscape for the listener to set the tone…

— Tyler Childers

In the midst of our own daily struggles, it's often hard to share an understanding for what another person might be going…

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

— 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

My first song was a hardcore knock-off of 'Tangled Up in Blue.' It was based on a story maybe I had heard…

— Tyler Childers

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

— 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

What I consider country music doesn't make it the end all be all, but if you ask me my opinion, that's what…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

— Tyler Childers

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to…

— 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

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

— Tyler Childers

I think that's why Sturgill and I worked so well together. We came from similar backgrounds as far as a sense of…

— 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

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

— Tyler Childers