1.
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!
Keith Urban
2.
Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
Keith Urban
3.
I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.
Keith Urban
4.
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
Keith Urban
5.
It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.
Keith Urban
6.
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.
Keith Urban
7.
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.
Keith Urban
8.
Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.
Keith Urban
9.
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.
Keith Urban
10.
If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.
Keith Urban
11.
Life is about holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
12.
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!
Keith Urban
13.
Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.
Keith Urban
14.
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.
Keith Urban
15.
When you put your arms around me,
You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do
Keith Urban
16.
I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.
Keith Urban
17.
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.
Keith Urban
18.
There's no soul in perfection.
Keith Urban
19.
Everybody needs somebody sometimes.
Keith Urban
20.
I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.
Keith Urban
21.
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!
Keith Urban
22.
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.
Keith Urban
23.
The older I get the more I can see
How much he loved my mother and my brother and me
And he did the best that he could
And I only hope when I have my own family
That everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
Keith Urban
24.
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.
Keith Urban
25.
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
Keith Urban
26.
Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.
Keith Urban
27.
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.
Keith Urban
28.
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.'
Keith Urban
29.
Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.
Keith Urban
30.
Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!
Keith Urban
31.
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.
Keith Urban
32.
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.
Keith Urban
33.
At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.
Keith Urban
34.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
Keith Urban
35.
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
Keith Urban
36.
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.
Keith Urban
37.
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.
Keith Urban
38.
And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.
Keith Urban
39.
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.
Keith Urban
40.
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.
Keith Urban
41.
I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.
Keith Urban
42.
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.
Keith Urban
43.
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.
Keith Urban
44.
I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
Keith Urban
45.
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.
Keith Urban
46.
Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!
Keith Urban
47.
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.
Keith Urban
48.
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.
Keith Urban
