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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 In the nearly 50 years she’s been working as a musician, Amy Grant has repeatedly resisted the labels others have sought to put on her. It’s difficult to overstate the influence the crossover Christian-pop artist had on culture \u2014 evangelical and otherwise \u2014 in the late 1980s and early \u201990s. Throughout the Grammy winner’s career and personal life, many Christians have embraced and then rejected her at various points \u2014 be it her divorce, her move into secular music or her more recent decision to host her niece\u2019s same-sex wedding. <\/p>\n
Her new album, \u201cThe Me That Remains,\u201d out Friday, was in part a way of processing a serious bicycle accident in 2022, which resulted in a traumatic brain injury, and the long recovery that followed. <\/p>\n
In a wide-ranging conversation with The Associated Press, Grant, 65, reflected on how the accident changed her, her willingness to go dark in her music and why she keeps turning back to her faith. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.<\/p>\n
GRANT: Two summers ago, I just started writing. It felt so good to write. I used to write as really a therapy process, and I had kind of lost touch with that a little bit, just because I was in other kinds of therapy \u2014 like physical recovery. And it was just magical reengaging in my creative self. I was far enough along in my physical healing journey that it was just like, \u201cOh my gosh, it\u2019s all lining back up.\u201d<\/p>\n
I think that the entrance into my creative self to go, \u201cYou\u2019re not who you used to be, but you are somebody\u201d \u2014 everybody is \u2014 and that was the first lyric. I don\u2019t know. It was just like, \u201cOh God, that felt good.\u201d And then one song led to the next.<\/p>\n
GRANT: I mean, there are things that are different. I have a niece that said, \u201cGod, I think I like you better now.\u201d<\/p>\n
GRANT: She\u2019s in her 40s. (Laughs) I\u2019ve known her since birth. But yeah. My processing is different. And there are areas where I have to be patient with myself, but I feel like I\u2019m in great physical health. Just in the last year my balance is so much better. I got back on a bicycle in a very safe environment two weeks ago and it was very emotional for me. Everybody is in recovery of some kind.<\/p>\n
GRANT: To me, the superpower of music is that it connects you, first and foremost, to yourself, and then to others, to God. Why pretend?<\/p>\n
I go dark sometimes. But I think everybody does. I\u2019m so, so glad for the world of creativity and how I first put my toe in it because that honesty in songwriting has been a constant invitation every day to show up as who I am. God, that\u2019s what you want for everybody. I don\u2019t want somebody\u2019s exterior, like their presentation, to be 180 degrees from what\u2019s in here.<\/p>\n
GRANT: There are a few songs on the record that I didn’t write but I love that song and I’ve known the songwriter for a long time. Her name’s Sandy Lawrence. She worked on that song for 15 years. But it wasn\u2019t until after the Jan. 6 experience at the U.S. Capitol that turned the creative juices for her and she was able to point that song in that direction. But all along it was about unrest.<\/p>\n
GRANT: There\u2019s a lot going on, which, by the way, as a global community, there\u2019s always a lot going on. There have always been pockets of people that were experiencing man\u2019s inhumanity to man that is unspeakable. That\u2019s always happening. And so I try every day to remind myself of the amazing power that every one of us has to affect the world by the daily choices we make. And however a people group is being treated, that treatment can be different through you. It can be different through me.<\/p>\n
You have to take a lot of deep breaths. And sometimes just sit in the unrest and know that the pendulum swings back and forth, and sometimes at the cost of a lot of life. In the middle of awfulness, there\u2019s always something good happening.<\/p>\n
GRANT: I\u2019ve always been compelled by curiosity and I think sometimes a potential listener can lose interest because of how something is pegged. Sometimes the way I\u2019m introduced, I\u2019m on the side of the stage waiting to go out and just the verbiage, I\u2019d go, \u201cWhew, I wouldn\u2019t stay for that show.\u201d Nothing about that interested me. Curiosity is such a great thing. Curiosity makes us lean in.<\/p>\n
Everybody\u2019s faith journey is unique. I am staking everything on the fact that it\u2019s God who finds us. And I trust that. And I think how we let that exhibit in our lives might make somebody else curious to lean in. As a person of deep faith, I have stood outside under stormy skies, under a full moon at different times in my life and said, \u201cAm I just talking to the ceiling? Are you really there?\u201d And I don\u2019t know, I come away and go, \u201cI don\u2019t know where else to turn.\u201d But that\u2019s my journey.<\/p>\n
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Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP\u2019s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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