One-On-One With Keith Urban

He’s a four-time Grammy-winning superstar who’s been at the top of his game for a long time – hitting the top of the charts, taking over the airwaves on “American Idol”; and even walking red carpets around the world with his beautiful wife Nicole Kidman. But when ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey went one-on-one with Keith Urban in Toronto, she found out even he has difficulties finding the right balance between life in and out of the spotlight.

Urban reveals, “I get it wrong sometimes. You know? But I think everybody does… you know? But you don’t know until it tips too far one way, and then it’s got to be recalibrated. But it’s a constant work in progress… everyone is trying to figure out how to have a life, have a career, realize their own potential and raise a family. And you know everything happens in this tiny little window of time in our life. It’s not at the beginning, it’s not at the end, its right smack dab in the middle. Everything is happening and you try do everything at once.”

A big part of Urban’s life includes his family, wife Nicole and their two Daughters Faith Margaret and Sunday Rose… whom they keep out of the public eye. But we wanted to know if the singer would support his children should they want to become big time musicians, like their father. He tells us: “I’d be exactly the same as my parents, in regards to their level of ‘Are they going to work at it?’… you can’t have this fantasy idea about being famous or being something or other. It’s got to be deep inside you, in your blood and your passion, and I think the work ethic is everything.”

Urban has been hard at work releasing his eighth studio album Ripcord earlier this month. The record contains his hit singles “John Cougar”;, “John Deere”;, “John 3:16″ and “Wasted Time”;. But it also contains collaborations with both Pitbull (Yes Pitbull) and Carrie Underwood.

“I had the idea to do a duet, more of a… not a singing together duet thing, sort of an idea of a girl asking a question, the guy answering… so we wrote it and then sent it to Carrie [Underwood]. And thankfully she loved it and wanted to be the girl in the song.” But Urban tells us it was recorded unconventionally, joking, “She was in a studio in St. Louis and I was in California shooting a video and I was FaceTiming her!”

Fans can see the Australian-born singer live this summer on his massive Ripcord World Tour – which kicks off in Kansas City on June 2, 2016 and has over 60 additional stops. But Urban isn’t sweating the upcoming performances. Telling us, “I mean when you’re playing the club shows five nights a week, every week, if you can stay employed. So this is a cake walk compared to that!”

Watch the full half-hour special Monday night on ET Canada.