Keith Urban was beaming with pride last week. The singer-songwriter watched as his oldest daughter, Sunday Rose, made her runway debut last week during Paris Fashion Week, a dream come true for the aspiring model, and for her “very proud” father

“Hopefully we can just help her keep balance with everything through all of that,” Urban tells People, adding that it is often a challenge for parents when their children become famous while young.

“Hopefully she’ll benefit by having two parents that know about a certain amount of celebrity,” he adds.

Urban and his wife, Nicole Kidman, might have spent their lives in the spotlight, but the 56-year-old acknowledges that parenting is hard for anyone, regardless of their celebrity status.

“It’s all a challenge. I mean, raising kids is a challenge, period. It’s about trying to keep a balance,” Urban reflects. “It’s all a process, but I think balance is key. Keeping her firmly with schoolwork and structure and everything balanced in its place is key.”

 

Urban, who also has 14-year-old daughter, Faith Margaret not only celebrated Sunday Rose’s first modeling job, but the launch of his HIGH in Vegas residency, where he performs some of his biggest hits over the last 25 years.

“I feel really lucky, blessed and grateful that I have songs that have stood the test of time that I passionately love,” Urban acknowledges. “We do ‘Somebody Like You.’ I passionately love that song. We do a song called ‘Where the Blacktop Ends.’ It was on my very first album. I’m passionate about that song… So I feel really grateful that I’ve got songs that the bones have been good, and so they’ve stood the test of time.”

This isn’t Urban’s first time performing in Las Vegas. The New Zealand native previously headlined his own Keith Urban: The Las Vegas Residency, which he extended due to fan demand. He now admits that he turned down the option to headline his own residency in Las Vegas, before finally giving in.

“I resisted a residency in Vegas for a few years. We got asked to come there quite a few years ago,” Urban tells Billboard. “I just didn’t think I would like it because in my head, it just seemed like the word residency just felt like, ‘Oh, you’re just doing the same show in the same place night after night after night,’ and that just sounded like an episode of Severance to me. But when we saw the Colosseum, I was ‘Oh my God, I think we’ll have a blast in here.’ I was surprised how much I loved it.”

Urban currently has a Top 15 hit with “Messed Up As Me,” from his latest HIGH album, out now. The song is one of four songs that were on his original 615 record, which he scrapped to make his new project instead.

“I know this sounds weird,” Urban admits. “It may not sound weird to certain people, but some people might think I’m completely loopy. But there were several songs, ‘Messed Up As Me’ was one of them. And there were a few other songs that felt like they were saying to me, ‘We don’t belong here. We belong on this other record, so take us with you, have faith in us, and get back in the studio and write. You’ll see this new record will happen with us in there, and it will be the record we belong to, because we don’t belong with this record.’ And I did it, I trusted the songs.

“I moved them over, went back to the drawing board, and built outwards from those songs,” he adds. “And man, this record came together. 40 minutes running time, top to bottom, and it was absolutely the record that I was meant to make but wasn’t the one I set out to make.”

Find HIGH and all of Urban’s music and upcoming shows, including his Vegas dates, at KeithUrban.com.