Mat Kearney Quotes
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Golf was big in my family.
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When 'Young Love' came out, I was really excited, and it has been really special.
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When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.
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I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.
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There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.
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My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.
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I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.
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I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
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The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even Ryan Adams... That was the first place I really started playing music, and I had to really step up my game. Really quick. Or get kicked off the stage.
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I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.
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There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.
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I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.
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When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out and connect with you. Great songs connect beyond genre and style.
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I grew up in Oregon, so there was always a lot of that folksy, Bob Marley stuff. There was a mural of Bob Marley on a wall at my high school.
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It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.
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For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'
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Money definitely does not equal success in recording.
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I can't help but do things my own way.
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I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
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God found me when I was at my lowest point. That was the first time in my life when I really felt like I understood who Jesus was - it was more than just knowing about Him: I felt like He met me in that time and place.
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I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.
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When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.
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I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.
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You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're being drawn to this visceral experience. And then the other half, you know, has lived and died with his 'Nebraska' album and considers him one of the greatest poets.