You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

It was never too late to undo who you had become.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.