Luke Bryan Opens Up About Finding Songwriting Inspiration In Everyday Life During Conversation With Second Lady Usha Vance

For Luke Bryan, inspiration for a song can come from anywhere, at any time. The country star recently joined Second Lady Usha Vance on her podcast, “Storytime with the Second Lady,” where he opened up about how some of his best ideas come from simply living life.

Especially when it comes to writing country music, Bryan says that the best way to find an idea is to “live your life, cherish every day, and appreciate the sun going down.” Sometimes those little moments and emotions are all it takes to spark an idea and eventually build out an entire song.

“Through the years, some of my best songs have happened from just a little thing that a stranger said on the street to me,” Bryan explained.

He went on to say that he actually experienced something like this recently when a friend texted him about his chocolate lab, Choc.

“Now I’m building a song around what he text messaged me. So songs can pop up in many different forms, and so you just got to be ready to capitalize on the idea,” he added.

When Vance asked if it’s likely that fans will get to hear a song about Choc soon, Bryan said, that they will “definitely probably hear about my mischievous chocolate lab…we’re in the works writing that song now.”

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The Georgia native’s love for songwriting dates all the way back to his childhood. He recalls his first introduction to writing songs being for his church youth group.

“I would take country music songs that were really, really popular and you recognize the melodies and I would put them under a Christian theme or something that would work in church.”

Now more than two decades of making music for a living and becoming one of the biggest names in the business, Bryan has learned just how powerful a simple idea can become. That’s a lesson he hopes to pass along to kids as he encourages them to embrace their creativity and find their own ways to tell stories.

“One of the best analogies when you’re writing a song is you go in and you write and nothing’s there. And then when you’re done, something is created and born. So I think anytime you can dive into a writing creative process, whether it’s songs or books or little stories or even on a camping trip, making up fun little ghost stories around a campfire was something that we used to do and stuff like that’s fun to really allow kids to express creativity.”

Luke Bryan wrapped up his time on the podcast by reading the children’s book, Spidey and His Amazing Friends: The Lost Web Shooter! Even though it’s been a few years since Bryan has had to read to his own kids, he was excited about the opportunity to speak to his storytelling skills while trying to inspire the next generation.