Keith Urban Quotes & Sayings

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

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. — Keith Urban

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. — Keith Urban

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff! — Keith Urban

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire. — Keith Urban

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody needs somebody sometimes. — Keith Urban

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

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

Yeah a picture paints a thousand words it's true,
But it's still not enough for how I feel about you.
I wanna put you in a melody, I gotta set you to a groove — Keith Urban

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

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

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

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

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

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy — Keith Urban

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

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

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

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

Life is about holding on and letting go. — Keith Urban

If ever I could love
I think it could be with you
If ever thought I found somebody so true
I wonder if you feel
The same way that I do
If ever I could love
I think it could be with you — Keith Urban

Well she was precious like a flower
she grew wild, wild but innocent
a perfect prayer in a desperate hour
she was everything beautiful and different
stupid boy, you can't fence that in
stupid boy, it's like holdin' back the wind — Keith Urban

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

Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry. — Keith Urban

The only place that I wanna be is where you are, cause any more than a heartbeat away is just too far. — Keith Urban

I'm letting go of all my lonely yesterdays, I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made, now there's just one thing, the only thing I wanna do. I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you. — Keith Urban

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

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio. — Keith Urban

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

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

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

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

I tend to write better when I'm not touring. — Keith Urban

When you put your arms around me,
You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do — Keith Urban

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

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

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

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. — Keith Urban

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

Nd now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive — Keith Urban

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

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one. — Keith Urban

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

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