By Mallory Mattingly
Multi-time Grammy award-winning country artist Luke Combs doesn’t care if spending more time with his family costs him awards.
“If that means I p*** off people by not hanging out with people I don’t even know, so other people think I’m cool, then who cares?” Combs told GQ. “If that’s the reason I don’t win a Grammy or CMA award, then do I even want one?”
When the singer married, he promised his wife, Nicole Hocking Combs, that he would be present and active in their lives, no matter how famous he became.
“My wife has supreme belief in me,” he said. “I could put both kids in the car right now and say, ‘Hey, we’re driving to Florida, and I’m going to spend a week with the kids by myself,’ and she wouldn’t worry if I could take care of them.”
Combs doesn’t want his kids to grow up in the limelight; instead, he wants them to have the most normal childhoods possible.
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“I’m home four days a week, every week, full-time,” the country music star revealed on “The MeatEater” podcast. “Sun-up, sundown most days. Getting the kids up, changing diapers, doing baths, cooking dinners, cooking lunches, cooking breakfasts. That occupies a lot of my time, but that’s what I want.”
“I want my kids’ childhoods to feel as normal as they can given the very strange circumstances that it will ultimately become,” he added.
The popular artist also revealed that he and his family live in a two-bedroom house.
“We’re going to be three under four in a two-bedroom house for over a year, which will be trying times,” Combs said on an episode of “The Zach Sang Show.”
The family’s dream home is currently being built, but they decided not to upsize while it’s under construction.
“It’s not like it’s not a braggadocious thing of like, well, ‘Look at me. I’m humble.’ The illusion that I’m not in the position I’m in is not something I’m trying to lay out to the masses. That’s just the situation we’re in,” he explained.
On the flipside, Combs reassured people that they live on acres of land and that there is “plenty of space” for everyone.
“It’s not like we live in an apartment in a high-rise and we’re stuck in there. I don’t want to give the illusion that I’m trying to be this overly humble guy. That’s not the idea. But that’s just a statement of fact that we live in a small house,” he said.
It’s encouraging to see a celebrity like Combs put his family before any other accolades.
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