Keith Urban Quotes

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

There's no soul in perfection.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.