If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.
Everybody’s entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
I write about everything, but I just – how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don’t be afraid, but just enjoy the day you’re in. Really make the most of it.
I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
I’m not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.
I’m frustrated by something, it’s my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it’s just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I’ve gotten.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I’ve made some bad choices.
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I’m not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.
I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits – all kinds of music.
Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I’m a good friend or not a good friend. I’m more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That’s just life, whether or not you’re public.
But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.