Keith Urban says he would've been playing music for a living no matter how successful he became. "I'd be somewhere else," he told CMT, which asked where he'd be if not on the top of the country game. "I'd be playing some club somewhere tonight."
The 47-year-old New Zealander said he had a positive home environment while growing up in Australia and that support allowed him to follow his dreams.
"I feel really fortunate that I had supportive parents, first and foremost," Urban said. "I started playing when I was age 6, and my mom and dad were incredibly supportive of me and drove me to talent quests that I was entering in when I was 9 and 10 and 11."
"I left school at 15 and was playing five nights a week in a band, and my mom and dad supported that, too," he added.
While he doesn't condone dropping out of school, it obviously worked out for him.
"I was very fortunate to have parents that really believed in what I was doing," he said. "They could see I was going to do it forever."
Urban recently got high praise from his wife, Nicole Kidman, who depended on him after her father passed away in September.
"To have my husband just step up in that way, it makes me cry. He's amazing," she said. "Well go through terrible things at different times in our lives. But to be literally carried by your partner - physically at times, because I was so devastated - it's just like, I'll do anything for that man."
Urban released a new single, "Somewhere In My Car," in September. Check it out below:
