Keith Urban Finds the Courage to Love

Superstar Keith Urban, currently touring in his native Australia, sends his love back to Nashville, telling Australia's The Age, "In Nashville we just jump in a car and drive to wherever we want to go -- restaurants, movies. Obviously we don't have that situation in Sydney. It changes the dynamic of being here.''

Wife Nicole Kidman reciprocates the feeling. "[Paparazzi] makes certain cities impossible to live in. Like Sydney, it makes it impossible for us to live there," the actress told London's Sunday Telegraph in London.

"We certainly don't get that treatment in Tennessee. But it goes with the territory. We have to be careful, just to maintain some sort of semblance of a normal life for our child."

But the Sydney situation doesn't stop Urban from talking about his two loves: music and his family. ''I don't mean to sound esoteric, or soft, but I think the courage to love is, for me, what's it's about,'' he said.

Urban went on to say that love is the abounding theme in his songs and being "brave enough to fully give myself to somebody."

Urban has clearly found that "somebody," in wife Nicole Kidman, who often is playing the role of audience member at Urban's shows. Urban said, ''I think I play better. When someone you love and someone who loves you is present, in what you're doing, no matter what it is, I think everything elevates a little bit.''