Blake's April Interview Highlights
I wanted to transcribe some of the highlights from Blake's recent interviews and have in one place because they are so great.
Did you ever imagine a love like this?
No, oh my God, but I don't know how you can. I don't know how you can imagine when you find that life partner, that missing piece - you didn't know it was missing, or I didn't. And now that it's there, it's like golly, you can go ahead and kill me if this ever goes away or ends or something happens. There's no going back now.
What do you hope the next 10 years looks like for you two?
If I could have a repeat of these past 10 years would be perfect, you know. Next month we've got an 18-year-old, which blows my mind that that already happened; and in a couple years, we'll have another 18-year-old and so it's going to be I guess a lot more alone time, which I'm not mad about that either. But we still have Apollo so we have another almost 10 years before we can kick him out. So it should be a lot of fun.
How have they changed your life?
In every possible way. I learned quickly, not because anything happened but just reading the room, you really have to take a step back and when people say it's not about you anymore when you have a kid, I mean it truly, I think if you're doing it right, it's not about you anymore, that's true. I've learned that any splash I make, anything I do gets on them too. Anything I say or that happens in the public eye, and I take that hard, I take that serious.
I've had a lot of people, especially friends, be like 'Man, how come you're not on — I never hear you say anything social media.' I say yeah, I deleted it, I don't even have that stuff anymore. There's no upside to it compared to what could be the downside, and I don't want anything that I ever do or say to get on the kids. So in that way they've changed my life a lot. I just want to step back, and this is their time.
What is your favorite part about being with them?
I think for me is the discovery part of where they're at. I get to teach them the country, and I love that, you know, whether it's music, literally getting out and getting their hands in the dirt, being out on the ranch, seeing the animals, I absolutely love being the person that gets to introduce them to that stuff.
Zuma is really going through a country thing right now — I hope he's not just going through it, I think he just found out who he is. He's definitely a boots and jeans guy now, but he's found his own country artists. He's now teaching me who some of these people are. I didn't know who Zach Bryan was until last year when Zuma introduced me to his records and we went to a concert and now I'm a big fan. And there's a lot of that, almost every week he's introducing me to someone I didn't know about. It's a lot of fun.
What is the secret to your strong relationship?
The fun thing about that, we don't really have to work on that. I don't know why, she's my best friend, that's the best way I know to say it. It's not something that we really have to think about, it's just there, you know, and we have fun with it. Maybe that's the key is we have so much fun together, whether we're having a cup of coffee in the morning or watching a movie or performing in an arena somewhere.
We literally just have so much fun together, and the only regret that we have is that we didn't find each other until late in life. But also know we had to go through everything we went through to get us there. We're just grateful, and we have fun.
What does Gwen's support mean to you?
It's everything, I mean that's my wife. She's never not been there to support me, and it's just such a comforting thing to know that she has my back, she's my best friend, and it's not something we just say, it's in our actions. We are as supportive of each other as we can be.
I want to know how you got a city girl like Gwen to become a country girl.
Well, flowers. It's hard to get her excited about, you know, a stalk of corn growing, but if you can get her some zinnias, and things like that going, now she's fired up, and now she wants to be a farmer.
Didn't you get her zinnia seeds for Christmas?
I got that, I got her sunflower seeds, you name it. If it can grow in Oklahoma I probably got it for her.
Of course you also got her some jewelry too, so you covered your bases.
I'm not sure which is more expensive, either, I don't know if you've priced some of that flower stuff, but holy shit.
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