Keith Urban Quotes

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.

I love stretching myself musically.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.