There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.