Carrie Underwood is set to play the Glastonbury Music Festival this weekend, but while she’ll be surrounded by thousands of fans, she admits that she sometimes feels a bit lonely on stage. “A lot of times I feel like I’m alone,” she tells “The Guardian.” “I’m obviously aware of people being around me. But it’s like I’m in the song alone on stage.”
Not that that loneliness is a problem for Carrie. “I like to be alone," she says. "My husband is probably the only person this planet I could’ve married – my mom, when I told her I was engaged, was even like ‘I just never really thought you’d get married.’"
Carrie also talks to the paper about why she chooses not to share her political feelings with fans, noting, “I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins. It’s crazy. Everybody tries to sum everything up and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. And it’s not like that.”
In fact, Carrie says she got a little upset when folks tried to pigeonhole her song “The Bullet” as being specifically being about gun control. “It was more about the lives that were changed by something terrible happening,” she says. “And it does kind of bug me when people take a song, or take something I said and try to pigeonhole or force me to pick a side or something. It’s a discussion – a long discussion.”
I met Carrie briefly on her Storyteller tour a couple years ago, and she definitely seemed very introverted to me. Like she would be perfectly happy if no one knew who she was and she could just hang in the back of the room, but because she's Carrie Underwood she knew she needed to be "on" in front of fans. Not that she was fake at all; she was super nice, and conversational, but there was a little standoffish-ness that made me think she was almost uncomfortable with the fact that she was famous. It made me like her more, to be honest.