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Carrie Underwood talked fame, kids, gossip and what if she gave a concert and no one came on 'CBS This Morning'
Published: 2/14/2013 3:30 PM
Last Modified: 2/14/2013 3:32 PM


Carrie Underwood seen arriving at last Sunday's 55th annual Grammy Awards. JORDAN STRAUSS/Invision/AP

Even Carrie Underwood is worried no one will show up to watch her perform.

That's what the multi-award winning Oklahoma singer told co-host Gayle King on Wednesday's 7 1/2-minute interview on "CBS This Morning."

"I'm still thinking, God, are we doing this for a reason? Are people going to show up? Are people going to like it?" Underwood told King.

"Are people going to fill those seats out there? Or is this the wrong thing to do?”

Underwood, who turns 30 March 10, discussed her continuing support for "American Idol" (she won in 2005) , her alleged "feud" with fellow country star Taylor Swift, children, and what she wants her life to say about her in the end.

The Checotah native said she's a big fan of "American Idol."

"I love watching,” said Underwood, who lives in Nashville with her husband pro hockey player Mike Fisher. "I love seeing hopefuls, just like I was, you know — this could change their lives forever. I think that's why people like to watch shows like that, is because it's a Cinderella story."

A story not unlike her own. She was the "AI" winner in season four back in 2005. But, even with all of her success, she doesn't feel like "Cinderella."

She told King she considers herself and her friends as "I promise, the most normal people ever" and finds the fame "overwhelming."

In a partial transcript provided by CBS, the magna cum laude graduate of Northeastern State University talked about what she thought being famous would be like.

"When you grow up thinking 'I want to be famous,' you know, if you're a kid and you see people singing and you're like, 'Wow, that must be awesome,' you really think of them, you know, everybody — somebody does everything for them,” said the singer, who won her sixth Grammy Award last Sunday.

"They don't have to do anything. There's a lot of work (laughs) and there's a lot of people that it takes.

"And everybody has to do their job, including the artist. You have to be willing to wake up at 4 a.m. to get ready in the morning to go on a morning, you know, TV show or radio show. And you stay up late because you have a show to put on."

Part of being famous is also dealing with gossip and rumors like the alleged feud between she and Taylor Swift. Something she told King she didn’t know existed.

And yet, even with all the fame, awards and packed-house concerts, she has her doubts about her success.

"Yeah we gear up for a big old tour like the 'Blown Away' tour and we're, you know, we're talking staging, we're talking lighting, we're talking, you know, all the background video. We're talking band and where they should be and how they should play and my wardrobe, all of that stuff, and I'm still thinking, God, are we doing this for a reason?

"Are people going to show up? Are people going to like it? Are people going to fill those seats out there? Or is this all — is this the wrong thing to do?

She'd "rather doubt than be completely overconfident and have it blow up in my face," she said, laughing.

She will celebrate her fourth wedding anniversary with Fisher July 10 and said she has been changed by marriage in a positive way.

"I mean, I had become, not in a bad way, but I know I had become selfish just because I only had me to worry about. And, you know, I look at my friends and people that I grew up with, most of them have multiple children right now. But he had been the same as me and really only had himself to worry about. So we — it took some adjustment for both of us."

Children are a possibility, maybe two "so they could keep each other company" but the couple has "so much to do" in their lives already right now.

"…It would, it would just be a lot more, I think, than all of us could handle. I think it's, at some point it’s going to be that I'm going to have to jump in kind of thing cause is there ever going to be a good time?"

Ultimately, at the end of her life, Underwood knows how she wants to be remembered.

"It's all about relationships and forming good relationships and making people's lives better," she said. "And I think at the end of my life, I hope I will have been able to say I did all of that, I made a difference.

"Not just in, like, music or — and that stuff's awesome, but it's — it's more about, like, personal relationships and changing people's lives for the better."

Her "Blown Away" tour continues Thursday in North America and later overseas in Ireland and England, wrapping up August 16 in Oregon.

"CBS This Morning" airs at 8-10 a.m. weekdays on CBS, channel 6.





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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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