Little Sunday Rose takes after her dad, doesn’t she? Even her brown hair looks a little flat-ironed. So, like father, like daughter. This is what Keith Urban wants too – he told Us Weekly that he thinks Sunday will follow in his footsteps and have a musical career. Although I guess we could say that Nicole Kidman has a musical career too – she’s on her second musical and she did that Robbie Williams single, right? While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a devoted dad talking about his pie-in-the-sky dreams for his little 16-month-old daughter, the quote “she’s got some pipes” struck me as weird. But I’ve always thought Keith is a strange duck anyway, so whatever:

Country crooner Keith Urban is hoping that when it comes to music, it will be like father, like daughter.

The Australian performer, 42, is rooting for his little girl, Sunday Rose, to follow in his musical footsteps.

“She’s got some pipes,” Urban says of his 16-month-old daughter with Nine star Nicole Kidman. “I think she sounds quite musical. I sit at the piano with her in the morning and we mash the keys together.”

Urban’s wife and daughter, born in July 2008, were top of mind at Sunday’s American Music Awards.

“I’ve never won anything with Nic sitting in the audience before,” Urban told reporters backstage after his win for Favorite Male Country Artist — which he dedicated to Kidman and Sunday. “It was beautiful to have [Nicole] there tonight. She’s such a huge inspiration for everything I do.”

The new dad — who calls fatherhood “pure bliss” — says he’s excited for Sunday to spend her first Christmas in her parents’ native Australia.

Has Urban thought of New Year’s resolutions yet?

“To keep your family together and to just keep choosing love,” he says.

[From Us Weekly]

Just keep choosing love? Not to be a pessimist during this holiday season, but those kinds of sentiments grate on my last bitter, bitchy nerve. I always consider myself a pretty positive person, too. I’m happy, I’m in a good place, but I don’t describe myself or my life in terms like “just keep choosing love” or “pure bliss”. Maybe they caught Keith in a weird moment. Maybe he was just talking out of his ass. Maybe Nicole’s weird boobs and face were distracting him. Cute baby, though. I want to pinch her little grumpy cheeks!

Keith Urban and Sunday Rose in New York on November 17, 2009. Credit: WENN.