Luke Combs has found the balance between two kids at home and a bigger-than-life career as one of the most acclaimed artists in music. His secret? Just be yourself.
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"I don't operate, really ever I feel like is whatever the public version of me is, because it's not really any different than who I just am anyways," The "Back In The Saddle" singer tells Katie Neal during this week's Superstar Power Hour. "Whatever the persona is, it's just who I am, so it's easy to just be myself, and that's what I always wanted."
"I didn't wanna have to pretend to be anything that I'm not when I'm doing interviews or at home or around people I don't know, or at the grocery store or whatever, you know what I mean? I live an oddly normal life to be honest. I feel like, and that's the way I wanted it to be."
Part of that normal life is having too many remotes and not knowing what they all do. For Combs, it came to light in a video where fans noticed a wide array of what appears to be garage door openers. "Yeah, there's been a lot of speculation on the garage door front," he laughs.
"So there's two clickers in there that have one button on them, so I have one clicker that's for my house garage. I have one clicker that's for my gate. I have a 3rd clicker that's for a detached garage that was there when we bought our house, and so that one does that. One clicker from my old gate that we don't even have anymore, so I just left it on there... I got a good collection. I could really probably have two clickers, but I have like 6."
"When we bought our place, it was just, those were just the clickers that were like that they had from down in the houses from the 50s or something so, that was just all the clickers they had and I was just too lazy to reprogram them."
Aside from collecting clickers, Combs has been racking up recordings for whatever his next project will become. "I probably got one recording session left on it, but I've already recorded, I don't know over 30 songs I would think," he reveals. "I don't know that there's any plans to do like the big album thing. I just don't know if I'd love that idea. There's nothing against it. I mean, obviously it works really well."
"I don't know what it's called yet. It's hard to know without having everything recorded," he adds. "Right now we're just, we have the songs we need."
"I'm really stoked about everything that we've recorded. I think it's really, really strong stuff," Combs gushes. "Obviously everyone says that about every album they've ever done, so take that with a grain of salt, but it's really just up to people how good it is, but I'm I'm really excited about it. I'm really stoked to to be getting back into it."
To hear more from Luke Combs on family, plans for next year, and current collabs, check out the full conversation with Katie Neal above.