
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Keith Urban: No. 5
5. His secret songwriting weapon? Fried pimento cheese sandwiches.
Monty Powell is a frequent co-writer of Urban's, and is a man who knows the singer's habits better than anyone else (except maybe Nicole Kidman). Powell tells People that Urban is great in the morning, but by mid-afternoon, his blood sugar begins to drop, and he starts to doubt everything they've done that day ... and that's when it's time for a snack break.
"We'll hop into his old pickup truck, drive into Leipers Fork for fried pimento cheese sandwiches," he says. "There's a hit song in every fried pimento cheese sandwich!"
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