Keith Urban Discussed the Challenges of 'Lonely and Miserable' Tour Life Before Split from Nicole Kidman

Life connected nan roadworthy is nary easy feat — conscionable inquire Keith Urban.

During nan premiere section of The Road connected CBS connected Sunday, Oct. 19, Urban opened up astir nan difficulties of life connected nan roadworthy arsenic a touring musician.

In nan opening scene, a personification down nan camera asks Urban and Blake Shelton — who's an executive shaper connected nan show — astir nan "challenges" of being connected nan road.

The "Female" singer, 57, responded, "Where do we start?"

"It's a calling and you're calved to do it — aliases you're not gonna make it," he said. "When you aftermath up connected a circuit autobus astatine 3:30 successful nan greeting and you're sick arsenic a dog, you're successful nan mediate of obscurity and you've sewage to play your 5th show later that nighttime and you haven't slept and you miss your friends and you're missing your family and you're wholly lonely and miserable and sick and you opportunity to yourself, 'Why americium I doing this?'"

Urban, who recently split from estranged woman Nicole Kidman, continued, "The only reply could be, 'Because this is what I'm calved to do.' We're going to find retired who's made of that stuff."

The Road, a brand-new singing title show, was co-created by Shelton and Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan. On nan show, musicians dream to drawback their large break by joining Urban connected circuit and it captures their high-stakes, unfiltered journeys and offers a backstage walk into nan gritty life of a touring musician," per nan show's description.

In a property merchandise announcing nan show, Urban said he "spent a batch of my underage life playing successful immoderate seedy pubs, sometimes conscionable for nan bartender. So I emotion nan thought of throwing artists into a real-world situation to find retired if they are artists."

Meanwhile, Shelton, 49, said nan show reminded him of nan days erstwhile he was hustling connected nan roadworthy earlier becoming a star.

"They're truthful big-eyed astir it. They're opening for Keith Urban astatine a bar, and there's a huge, excited crowd successful location waiting for immoderate bully state music," Shelton told PEOPLE May. "I had those moments connected nan autobus [back successful nan day] wherever nan set would spell successful and soundcheck and I tin retrieve asking, 'Is location anybody moreover successful there?'

The show's premiere came weeks aft Urban's shocking split from nan Practical Magic actress, 58, aft 19 years of marriage. The exes stock two daughters together: Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.

Shortly aft news of their separation was made public, a root told PEOPLE that Urban had moved retired of nan family location and was mostly distant arsenic he traveled nan world connected his High and Alive World Tour.

"Their lives were moving successful different directions, and erstwhile he softly group up his ain place, it felt for illustration nan penning was connected nan wall," a root said of Kidman — who filed for divorce connected Sept. 30 — and Urban.

“It really hasn’t been a concealed successful their circles that Keith and Nicole person been surviving separately for a while now," nan root added. "People adjacent to Keith felt for illustration nan divided was benignant of inevitable."