Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

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.

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.