Tedder is married. He acknowledged and thanked his wife, Genevieve, in the liner notes of OneRepublic’s debut album Dreaming Out Loud. They have two sons. Tedder’s third cousins (Adam, Ashley, and Austin Clark) comprise the band Sons of Sylvia and were formerly in The Clark Family Experience. He co-wrote their song “Love Left to Lose”.
Despite being a Christian, Tedder does not want to be labeled as a “Christian artist”. He has a tattoo on one arm, written in old Japanese, which he got in Osaka; it means “God’s will” and more literally translates as “God gives and God takes”.
Tedder has a strong appreciation of culinary art, and says he loves Iron Chef. He became involved with Southern Hospitality, a restaurant co-created in 2007 by Justin Timberlake at Second Avenue in Manhattan, when it opened a second location in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. On August 22, 2011, it was announced that Tedder had become the first franchisee of the Southern Hospitality BBQ brand and that there were plans to bring the concept to ten cities across the United States including Denver, Nashville, Dallas, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Phoenix, Palo Alto and Washington, D.C. They opened a restaurant in the St. Elmo Hotel in October 2012.
