Chesney: Music helped me with breakup

After marriage to Zellweger, country star says he needs more patience

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Kenny Chesney is learning to cool it. “‘I need it all and I need it now’ was my mentality before,” he says.

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updated 9:30 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2005

NEW YORK - Kenny Chesney says his music has helped him deal with the breakup of his brief marriage to “Bridget Jones” actress Renee Zellweger.

“It’s like medicine — and obviously I need that now,” the 37-year-old country singer tells Life magazine in an upcoming issue.

His new album, “The Road and the Radio,” is set for release Nov. 8.

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Zellweger filed for an annulment from Chesney last month. The couple married in a surprise Caribbean island ceremony in May after first meeting in January.

Chesney tells the magazine he has learned that he needs to be more patient. “‘I need it all and I need it now’ was my mentality before. I used to rush everything to get it done.”

Including marriage?

“What was that old song: ‘We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout,”’ Chesney replies.