Kip Moore

My household was very intimidating and not to break down family dynamics, but like I get along, my siblings great, like we're great, but it was a talented household, but it wasn't a, you weren't gonna get a pat on the back.

And you weren't going to for sure get a pat on the back if it wasn't good.

Whatever it was, it just wasn't going to happen that way.

There was no third place trophies.

There wasn't a, oh, you're doing good, keep it up kind of thing.

And there was a lot more...

joking almost making fun of whatever was kind of somebody was doing and um and that's the way they show love you know but like my my older brother who I just I looked up to both my brothers so much but my older brother was a really good guitar player and I was such a sponge of all the records he was playing all the Nirvana records and Pearl Jam and then he was

you know, playing blues records.

And then he was playing Paul Simon and playing, you know, all these people.

And he's probably one of the main reasons I'm doing what I'm doing because I looked up to him so much, but he didn't know that.

But I always told myself because I was writing lyrics and songs at an early age that nobody knew about, even when I was a teenager.

And then I told myself the minute I get to college, my freshman year, I'm going to buy a guitar and I'm going to learn how to do this.

I just didn't want to learn to do it in front of them.

Yeah, I do.

You wish they would?

Man, I've just kind of learned.

I know how they feel about me.

You know, I think when you look up to whether it's your brothers, whether it's your dad, whether it's your mom, whatever it is, I think that any kid...

is gonna want that.

You know, I just think that's a natural innate thing that we all have in us, you know?