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

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

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

- 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'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'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

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

- Keith Urban

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

- 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

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

- 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

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

- Keith Urban

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- Keith Urban