Josh Radnor Says Changing into a Musician Has Made Him ‘Really feel Youthful’ (Unique)

Ted Mosby, architect. However how about Josh Radnor, musician?

Although the How I Met Your Mom star, 50, is finest often known as an actor, director and screenwriter, he’s additionally an achieved singer-songwriter, one thing he tells PEOPLE has been useful in sustaining a zest for all times.

“It’s made me really feel youthful. After we’re youthful, we’re at all times making an attempt new issues, and customarily we’re just a little braver about sticking with issues till possibly we get type of good at them,” he explains. “And I believe once we become older, we’ve remoted our presents just a little bit extra, or have them remoted for us, and we keep in a a lot narrower lane.”

Radnor solely picked up a guitar and found his expertise for songwriting a couple of decade in the past. However, he says, the conclusion was life-changing. His debut EP One Extra Then I’ll Let You Go got here out in 2021, and he launched his debut album Eulogy, Vol. I two years later. Eulogy, Vol. II was launched in December.

“I felt like I had gained a brand new superpower,” he says of beginning his music profession. “I actually thought individuals who wrote songs and performed them have been a distinct species, type of, like a particular type of individual I wasn’t. After which once I discovered how you can do it, I used to be like, ‘Oh, it is a talent like cooking or studying a brand new language.’”

Radnor says he likened writing a music to writing for TV or the silver display screen; whereas earlier than he’d been crafting 90-minute tales, he was now making a story in 4 minutes.

“That is all this story wants, is a gorgeous melody and these phrases. And if you get the best phrases with the best melody, there’s no feeling fairly prefer it,” he says. “I’m so pleased with the music. How I Met Your Mom, it was like I used to be enjoying the violin within the orchestra or no matter, and it’s so good to be the composer or the conductor.”

The star is ready to embark on a tour in help of his newest document beginning in April.

“I’ve at all times been simply an enormous music fan, and now to have the ability to create it’s only a actual thrill,” he says. “Songwriting, there’s actually nothing prefer it. It’s not the one factor I do, however I’m so glad it’s one of many issues I do.”

On Monday, Feb. 3, Radnor introduced completely to PEOPLE that he and How I Met Your Mom co-creator Craig Thomas are launching a brand new rewatch podcast known as How We Made Your Mom.

The podcast, which is able to premiere on March 10, will see the duo “discover, episode by episode, the thriller on the coronary heart of what has made this present so sturdy and beloved. It’s time — very similar to the older wiser narrator Ted does within the present — to look again on this journey that occupied a pivotal decade of their lives; how the present modified them, the way it modified its followers, and the way it modified the tradition,” in keeping with a synopsis.

A variety of particular friends will be part of Radnor and Thomas on the podcast, which was impressed by Radnor’s spouse Jordana Jacobs, Thomas informed PEOPLE.

“She has by no means seen one episode of How I Met Your Mom in her total life, not one,” he mentioned. “He loves this as a result of he liked the thought of assembly someone and falling in love with them, who did not have preconceived notions about Josh, who hadn’t spent 9 seasons watching Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mom, and the blur and confusion between, ‘Is Josh like that? Is Josh not like that?'”

The beloved CBS sitcom premiered in September 2005 and aired its finale in March 2014.