Clip of Jennifer Knapp

Next I wanted to talk a little bit about your faith. You were nominated for a Grammy in 2000 and then you won two double awards the year before in 1999, New Artist of the Year and the Rock Song of the Year. I was wondering how your faith has changed since coming out and how it's impacted your songwriting. Yeah, I think somewhat in my youth, like definitely my experience was trying to be the best Christian that I could be and that was the work, the labor every single day. And what does that look like in doing kind of the mechanical things? I think I felt passionately about my faith and there was a lot of enthusiasm for me to participate and a real genuine curiosity about God. And I still have that curiosity today but I'm less, the irony is I'm less concerned about what it looks like and what I appear to be working like because I'm busy doing other work. I've got other issues rather than what I mean I guess a way to say it is like I'm worried less about the way that I'm dressed and being functional and getting on with the task and being dressed for the work

that I need to do in any given day. It's not really the most glamorous of metaphors but I mean I just finished my Masters of Theological Studies at Vanderbilt University over the last couple of years and that's been an incredibly you know obviously that still is a key to how curious I am about God and I think even more I'm interested in being able to not just write shiny poetry but like the kind of poetry that really says something truthful and it takes a lot more digging and a lot more depth and it's it's a lot harder work actually in a strange way but I don't want to shy away from the even the earlier work that I did because it to me it wasn't a femoral at the time it's it's stood the test and sustained me throughout this time but yeah it's I'm actually these days even though I still in terms of faith identify as a Christian I'm less concerned about having

specifically Christian conversations and when I get into that zone interested about how we all kind of have conceptions of God and how we travel with that.