Keith Urban Net Worth

Keith Urban's Quotes

• It's what we're torn between, isn't it? Bitching and moaning and complaining about this life, and yet not wanting to give it up for anybody or anything
• I knew I could contribute but people would offer me all sorts and behind my back they just found my quest laughable. It was awful, I'd be crying driving down to the studio some days, just crying, thinking I hate this, I don't want to sit in this room with some guy I've never met before and try and write a song. That's really awkward.
• It was the frustration, not being able to get in my car and drive home to center myself. I was in this surreal world full of nobody I trusted and getting hit on the head constantly. You're thinking `this is the best I can do and it's not working, what more can I do?' It was a cheap escape - well it wasn't cheap - but it was just a pathetic escape mechanism. I couldn't leave so I left by being somewhere else in my head. It wasn't the greatest career move, it distracted me from music. But when your entire life is centred on this one goal, are you really going let the drugs take it away from you?
• 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.'
• "It makes me feel a bit naked and vulnerable, but I think that's part of being true to yourself and committing to your music. It's therapeutic too going to the studio everyday is like lying on a therapist couch.

Interesting Facts about Keith Urban

1. Before venturing forth as a solo country music artist, was a member of the mid- 1990s country band called "The Ranch."
2. Scored his first No. 1 hit on Billboard magazine's Country Singles and Tracks chart with "But for the Grace of God" in February 2001.
3. Posed in the April 2001 edition of Playgirl.
4. Pet Peeves: People who don't look you in the eye when they shake your hand and leave lint in the lint filter or a dryer. And people who show you a bunch of photographs and half of them are out of focus.
5. He became the first Kiwi to win the CMA Male vocalist of the Year in 2004.
6. First paying non-music job: at a concert lighting company.
7. Influences: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, Don Williams, Mark Knopfler, Freddie Mercury, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Ronnie Milsap and Dolly Parton.
8. Instruments he can play: Guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard, ganjo (a 6 string banjo), sitar, & piano
9. He was raised in Australia. He moved with his parents and brother to Brisbane, Queensland when he was 2. They later moved to Caboolture, about 1 hour north of Brisbane.
10. 2005 Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year.
11. Was accompanied by his girlfriend Nicole Kidman to the Grammy Awards in 2006. It was their first public appearance together.
12. Became the first artist to win Male Vocalist of the Year (2004, 2005), Entertainer of the Year (2005) and the Horizon Award (2001) at the Country Music Association Awards
13. Engaged to Nicole Kidman.
14. Brother-in-law of Antonia Kidman.
15. He and Nicole Kidman honeymooned in Taihiti
16. He and Nicole Kidman asked their wedding guests not to buy any presents but to donate the money instead to some humanitarian organization.
17. 230 guests attended his wedding to Nicole Kidman. Among them were Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, Baz Luhrmann,Jane Campion, Hugh Jackman and Nicole's two children Isabella and Conor.Jim Carrey was also invited and greatly wanted to come, in fact he booked plane tickets to Australia, but last minute scheduling conflicts stopped him from going.
18. Married Nicole Kidman in the St. Patrick's church in Manly, a suburb of Sydney
19. Stepfather of Nicole Kidman's children: Isabella Cruise and Connor Cruise.
20. His wedding ceremony lasted 35 minutes