Keith Urban Quotes

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

I used to get worried about writing a love song, because everyone else is doing them, and there are already enough of them out there. But I came to realize that there's a reason for that: Love is powerful, one of the most powerful emotions there is.

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.