Carrie Underwood stays grounded with faith
Carrie Underwood believes "faith" is the "only" way to stay grounded in the "self-serving" entertainment industry.
Carrie Underwood believes "faith" is the "only" way to stay grounded.
The Before He Cheats hitmaker - who has sons Isaiah, 11, and Jacob, seven, with husband Mike Fisher - thinks it is easy to get swept away by the "self-serving" entertainment business but her Christian beliefs help to remind her about what matters.
She told Fox News Digital: "Faith is the thing that can keep you grounded. When you're in the entertainment industry, there's a lot of things that, and I've said this before, it's just not real life. You can get caught up in a lot.
"You're kind of in a self-serving business. Everybody around you is there to make sure you're good, and you're happy, and you have everything you need, and I feel like you can start to… you can lose your roots real fast, you know. So I think faith is the only way to keep you grounded."
The American Idol judge praised the talent show for having a faith-themed week this week and giving contestants a space to express their own beliefs.
She said: "I think it's for me personally being here on our songs of faith night. It was just joyful, you know, it was happy.
"It was people up there sharing their heart, and whatever that was to them, whether it was some song that, you know, touched them that was inspirational to them or whether it was something that they got to praise the Lord with. It was just a joyful, happy, lovely night."
Carrie, 43, shot to fame when she won the fourth season of American Idol in 2005 and she can see herself in some of the hopefuls that audition for the show, so she loves being a part of their journey.
She said:"Every once in a while, I will see glimpses of myself in a hopeful, whether it's somebody being super nervous or sometimes stylistically, just navigating this.
"This is weird, let's be honest. Being up on stage, singing in front of a whole bunch of people on TV, it's not your everyday kind of thing.
"So everybody's figuring out how to navigate all of it. But I'm just glad that we get to be a part of somebody's journey, lots of people's journeys."
When it comes to her own career, Carrie just looks for things that make her "excited".
She said: "I think the things that motivate me are things I get excited about and, whatever that is, you know, whether it's singing at church or, you know, some project comes up that I'm like, I just want to be a part of that even if it doesn't quite make sense.
"It's like being able to find those things that still get me excited."
