Keith Urban is going to need to dream new dreams. The New Zealand native reveals one of his biggest dreams for years came true a long, long time ago.
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"All I wanted to do was live in America — in Nashville — make records," Urban tells WKML. "See if I could get some of those songs on the radio. See if I could get some songs that people know, and then those people maybe want to come and see those songs live. And then, I could tour with my own music as a live performer."
Urban moved to Nashville in 1992. His first No. 1 hit was "Somebody Like You," released in 2002. In other words, Urban's biggest dream came true more than 20 years ago.
"That's it. That's all I wanted to do," Urban says. "So, from that standpoint, I checked those boxes a long time ago. But then like anything, there's then new interests — musically for me just seeing where my music can go, where I can go musically, just exploring. Musical exploration, always."
Keith Urban's "Somebody Like You"
"Somebody Like You" might have been Urban's first No. 1 hit, but not everyone was a fan of the song. The Grand Ole Opry member was inspired to write that song by a former girlfriend, whom he declines to name.
"I was in a bad way personally, struggling a lot and I was in a relationship that was not... I wasn't in a good way," Urban divulges on the Q with Tom Power podcast. "And I thought at the time, 'My girlfriend seems to really love me, I wish I could love myself the way she seems to.' So the song was actually, 'I want to love somebody like you do, I want to love me like you do.'"
Some might have been touched by the sentiment, but Urban's ex most definitely was not.
"She hears it as a love song and it finished and she just looks at me, she goes, 'You're a f-----g hypocrite,' and then walked out of the room," Urban remembers. "She's like, 'You don't want to love anyone, you're just an a--hole.' And she wasn't wrong. It wasn't the guy I was, it was the guy I wished I could be."
