I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

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.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

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.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.