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Hayley Williams

Hayley Williams

American singer-songwriter

Mar 10, 2026

14:06
[laughs]
14:08
But he...
14:09
But it's this elaborate thing where it's like he's secretly planning with all of the rest of my friends to kill and cook and eat me.
14:17
[laughs]
14:17
[laughs]
14:18
Like, like, uh, you know, like, you know, before the Tonys, he'll send, like, a message being like, "Okay, so hi, Claudia.
14:27
Um, so Cole Foley thinks they're going to the Tonys."
46:23
Mm-hmm.
46:23
And we would like...
46:24
My favorite days were Portugal.
46:27
We were in Portugal for like four days before the shows started, and we did one day on like this little boat.
46:34
The guys and I all went out, our, our crew, everybody.
46:37
I think there was like 40 of us, maybe 30 of us total, and, um, we went out.
46:42
And I'm, we're not talking about like a yacht situation, but it was very cute, and we went out and we, we swam.
51:37
Yeah.
2:40
It was Rusty that taught Hayley how to play the drums and the piano, but his own music, it almost didn't see the light of day until now, with a little help from his granddaughter.
2:52
Granddad was, like, my resource within my family for music.
2:56
I just learned so much at such a young age from him.
3:01
That was my musical education.
3:02
And so piano, and then later on learned a little bit about the drums from him.
3:10
[gentle music] A lot of my earliest music memories are just sitting at the piano at their house and him showing me "Chopsticks" or showing me a C chord, him playing while I sit next to him and toying around on my piano or his piano growing up.
3:30
I would go to Granddad's house as a kid, and we would watch the Temptations movie that would come on TV, and we would talk about their story.

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12:53
So Hayley, I mean, you were obviously very talented and driven even as a little girl, but do you remember when you came to your grandfather and, you know, you told him you wanted to get into the music business seriously? How did he react?

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