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He said his dad's love of music came to mind when he began to write \"Wild Hearts.\"

“Literally the first thing that came to me [was] when my dad took my family to see Johnny Cash and I was 5,\" Urban told Billboard. \"The truth of my past [made] it so easy to write, because there’s no doubt that was the beginning of my journey, that concert.\"

He went on, \"I realized it was the thing that set me on the path into country music, into playing guitar on stage, singing and doing this thing probably to get my dad's attention from the very beginning.\"

\"When you're 5 years old and you see your father mesmerized by something -- in a way that I don't think I had seen that gaze come to me -- I'm like, 'I'm going to do that,'\" he added.

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