"It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record"
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Urban then flips the frame from labor to attention. "You're writing all the time. You're collecting songs". That verb, collecting, is doing the heavy lifting. It suggests a craft built from noticing: overheard lines, chord fragments, emotional afterimages, a melody that wont leave you alone. For a country star whose brand depends on authenticity, this is also a defense against the cynicism that hits any hitmaker: no, these arent manufactured on demand; theyre gathered from real life, slowly.
The two-year window is a subtle flex and a vulnerable admission. It signals patience in a market engineered for constant content, but it also acknowledges that records arent just outputs; they're containers. Songs can sit, ripen, change meaning as you do. Urban is describing a career strategy that looks like art: keep the net in the water so when its time to make an album, you arent scrambling to feel something.
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Urban, Keith. (2026, January 16). It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-can-get-a-little-costly-if-you-try-and-leave-124302/
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Urban, Keith. "It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-can-get-a-little-costly-if-you-try-and-leave-124302/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-can-get-a-little-costly-if-you-try-and-leave-124302/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
