Hayley Williams

Singer, Songwriter

Hayley Williams is the lead vocalist of Paramore, known for her emotive lyrics and exploration of love and resilience in her music.

Born
April 27, 1989
Quotes
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Rank
#5171

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"Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves."

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"I'm not a real crazy social butterfly - and once I realised that and I accepted it, I started to realise how many people weren't accepting of that."

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"I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then the girl turns absolutely crazy. I always thought growing up like: "No, I won't be like that - when I go through a breakup I'll be cool.""

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"I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music."

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"Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded."

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"I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is."

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"Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you."

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"I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody on their own journey - because one song might mean something to me, that means something completely different to someone else."

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"Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now"

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"Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it."

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"When I was in elementary school I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible."

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"we are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better."

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"Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I"

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"Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious"

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"I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang."

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"Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life."

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"To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me."

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"We [Paramore] are very different people at home, but the people that we are on-stage is just a side of us that our crowd and the audience that comes to our shows brings out of us. Different people bring different sides out of each other, and for sure our fans bring out the most hyper and ridiculous side of us because we get so psyched to see everyone when we're on stage."

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"My mom and I were super close when I was a kid, her and I sort of ran off from her ex-husband. It wasn't such a good time for us and I remember listening to The Distillers with her. One time I actually asked her, 'Mom, can I shave my head into a mohawk?'"

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