Mat Kearney

I love Michigan.

— Mat Kearney

Golf was big in my family.

— Mat Kearney

Songs really tend to connect.

— Mat Kearney

I'm a '90s music kid.

— Mat Kearney

Paul Simon is the king!

— Mat Kearney

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

— Mat Kearney

To be young and dumb and in love with you.

— Mat Kearney

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

— Mat Kearney

My goal is to try to avoid a genre.

— Mat Kearney

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

— Mat Kearney

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

— Mat Kearney

New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.

— Mat Kearney

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

— Mat Kearney

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

— Mat Kearney

'City Of Black And White' was me trying to do something more mature, more adult contemporary.

— Mat Kearney

When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

— Mat Kearney

I'm fighting to live and feel alive, But I can't feel a thing without you by my side.

— Mat Kearney

Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room.

— Mat Kearney

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney

My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.

— Mat Kearney

I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I…

— Mat Kearney

God found me when I was at my lowest point. That was the first time in my life when I really felt…

— Mat Kearney

From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've…

— Mat Kearney

Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger…

— Mat Kearney

When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something…

— Mat Kearney

All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play…

— Mat Kearney

I think my faith is a huge part of my music. But for me, it didn't make sense to be in any…

— Mat Kearney

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…

— Mat Kearney

The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even…

— Mat Kearney

Well, I never made a record to be in the Christian market. So when I made my record it was to exist…

— Mat Kearney

I think coming from the Northwest is something that's born in your blood. On my mom's side, I'm, like, a sixth-generation Oregonian.…

— Mat Kearney

I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of…

— Mat Kearney

I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them…

— Mat Kearney

You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're…

— Mat Kearney

I've always sought to get after something that's foundational in people. That comes through my faith, through my belief in life, through…

— Mat Kearney

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the…

— Mat Kearney

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

— Mat Kearney

I can't help but do things my own way.

— Mat Kearney

Life's too short to stay where we are.

— Mat Kearney