We sent over 200 people through to Hollywood, and we narrowed it down, and then even further down to get to our top 48, and those 48 guys and girls we took into the House of Blues in Los Angeles to put them into a live club setting, where the band was set up, and they got up onstage and did a song each in front of the audience in that club.

Keith Urban

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Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

Keith Urban

everyday littles father

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

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From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

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temptation matter evil

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

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It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

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breakup break-up running

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.

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real ifs dream

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

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Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.

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married priorities long

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

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heart country thinking

Life is about holding on and letting go.

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I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

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vocabulary taken kids

When you put your arms around me,

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song country world

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

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truth-comes-out good-place artist

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

Keith Urban

apology fans song

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

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bigger scene country

There's no soul in perfection.

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soul perfection

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

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different done wish

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

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sometimes needs

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.

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vanity people thinking

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

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