Past Internet Chats with Amy Grant
            
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[AOL Chat September 24, 1999]
Amy Grant - Sept. 24, '99 Chat Transcript EAMusic1: Welcome AMY GRANT!!!
Question: Amy I Love YOU!! What is your role in this new movie and when is it on, AmyGrantEA: I play a blind cellist and it airs Sunday night on CBS....8:00 CST on Sept 26th
Question: KAAMOJI: Amy, thanks for all your wonderful music. How different was
Question: the movie from the videos that you have done?
AmyGrantEA: Thank you. The great thing about a video Question: Red3KM: how did you get started in movies? LOG COUNT: There were 2 member(s) in The Bowl at 06:00 PM AmyGrantEA: Ever since the "Baby baby" video, it's like AmyGrantEA: every time I've made a video the director has AmyGrantEA: made a point of telling my manager that AmyGrantEA: I should act. AmyGrantEA: Usually, the comment is, "She focuses AmyGrantEA: well, she has a brain, and she takes AmyGrantEA: direction" AmyGrantEA: And so, an interesting script came along AmyGrantEA: that was not about a singer and I liked that. Question: Mrpunk2u: Hi Amy, Adam here... your music has always been a positive Question: force, but many artists today seem irresponsible; is it fair to say Question: that artists ARE role models, and should take responsibility for the Question: messages their music is giving children? AmyGrantEA: Thanks for a light question, there, Adam. AmyGrantEA: ;) AmyGrantEA: It seems like a person's art/music AmyGrantEA: reflects their life. So, I guess the real AmyGrantEA: question is, is an honest portrayal AmyGrantEA: of somebody's life always a good AmyGrantEA: role model? And the answer is, no. AmyGrantEA: An argument can be made for sanitizing AmyGrantEA: everything. I have three children of AmyGrantEA: my own and part of me wants to lock AmyGrantEA: them in a padded cell to protect them. AmyGrantEA: People want to be lifted up because AmyGrantEA: life is so hard. And I think that's why AmyGrantEA: inspirational music will always be AmyGrantEA: something that people want to hear. Question: JKJordan98: First of all a big hello from Germany... Amy, is there any Question: chance to see you live on tour again? Europe and especially Germany Question: are waiting for you, your music and your smile. Love Sabrina AmyGrantEA: How kind! That's really sweet! AmyGrantEA: No immediate plans for overseas travel. AmyGrantEA: I have some amazing memoreis AmyGrantEA: in Germany. Question: Hugs2005: In real life do you really play the cello? AmyGrantEA: No. In fact, every time before the camera AmyGrantEA: rolled they would soak the strings of my AmyGrantEA: bow so you couldn't hear how bad AmyGrantEA: the sounds I was making with my cello were. AmyGrantEA: LOL Question: SSemm:Hi Amy! What is your favorite song to perform? thanks, Mae AmyGrantEA: It depends on my mood. Favorites are, AmyGrantEA: El Shadday, Baby Baby, I Will Remember You. AmyGrantEA: I have sentimental attachments to a lot AmyGrantEA: of different songs. Question: CecilleV18:Hi, Amy....how are you??? 'Hope all is well.....Are you Question: going to have a new album release this year? AmyGrantEA: Yes. October 18th I'm releasing a new AmyGrantEA: Christmas album called "Christmas To Remember" Question: Mrpunk2u:Hi Amy, ... now that you've made the full-length TV movie, "A Question: Song from the Heart," are you eager to act again soon, and if so, what Question: kind of role would you be most interested in doing? AmyGrantEA: I would love to act again. Maybe not soon. AmyGrantEA: It takes over your whole life. I would AmyGrantEA: enjoy playing a smaller part in a AmyGrantEA: feature film. Question: *BleuEyes7: What do you do when you have free time ? AmyGrantEA: I have a vague memory of free time. AmyGrantEA: LOL AmyGrantEA: Yesterday afternoon we lined the backyard AmyGrantEA: like a football field and played touch AmyGrantEA: football until the sun went down. Question: NHB10NHB:Amy, do you still drink TAB? AmyGrantEA: I was a real TAB Fanatic and actually a TAB can appeared on the back of a live album AmyGrantEA: cover in the early 80s. I haven't had AmyGrantEA: one in probably 15 years. Question: IAmTDD: What inspires you to write your songs? AmyGrantEA: Either intense emotion or an album deadline. AmyGrantEA: ;) Question: Rodermoo: I've been a big fan since '82. Any plans for a Pop or Live Question: album? AmyGrantEA: I'm supposed to deliver a pop album to Interscope, my new record company in June of 2000. AmyGrantEA: I don't know the release date, but I'm AmyGrantEA: supposed to finish my record by June. Question: MichMcClur: Amy- any plans to release another greatest hits or a video Question: collection? AmyGrantEA: Well, that was sort of in the works when A&M was dissolved. AmyGrantEA: Right now I think Interscope just wants AmyGrantEA: new material.. They don't want a best of. Question: BRthbn: how old were you when you started music AmyGrantEA: I wrote my first song when I was 15. AmyGrantEA: And I signed a record contract that AmyGrantEA: same year. I released my first album AmyGrantEA: when I was 17. It was 21 years ago! AmyGrantEA: I'm 38 now! Question: RomaTears: Amy, how long did it take to film the movie? AmyGrantEA: Four weeks. Question: REJ001: When you first began singing did you have stage fright and if Question: so how did you get over that fear? AmyGrantEA: I still have stage fright sometimes. AmyGrantEA: If you can figure it out, let me know how to get rid of it! LOL AmyGrantEA: It's just getting from backstage to the front of the stage that's nerve wracking. AmyGrantEA: Once you're out there singing, you realize AmyGrantEA: you feel incredibly normal and it's going AmyGrantEA: to be a great experience. Question: Hi Amy, you were involved in helping the Columbine shooting victims Question: and their families;that must have been so intense emotionally, how did Question: it personally affect you and your faith? AmyGrantEA: I didn't have any answers. From a faith AmyGrantEA: perspective, it just made me more aware AmyGrantEA: of how much we need God's mercy. AmyGrantEA: But, I think the whole experience was AmyGrantEA: so overwhelmingly painful it was hard to AmyGrantEA: really let it all in. I tried, but it was just AmyGrantEA: like it made my insides shut down. Question: Hi Amy, I really been touched by your music and have seen you on tour Question: many times and I really like your accoustic solo sets with you and the Question: guitar. Do you ever plan on doing an "UNPLUGGED" album and video? AmyGrantEA: Well, there's no immediate plans. AmyGrantEA: thank you! That sounds like a great idea to me. I don't know how interesting a whole albu AmyGrantEA: album or video would be of that because AmyGrantEA: I'm not really a great guitar player. AmyGrantEA: But I've always had this fantasy of AmyGrantEA: having this great little late night gig AmyGrantEA: in a coffee house with a guitar, so if AmyGrantEA: the video thing doesn't pan out, find me AmyGrantEA: at the little sausalito coffee shop! Question: AMYGFREAK7:Amy are you gonna watch your movie on Sunday? AmyGrantEA: Well, CAA, my agency, had the idea AmyGrantEA: to throw a big party. You know, food, invite AmyGrantEA: a bunch of people to watch it on a big AmyGrantEA: screen. And that idea just really mortified AmyGrantEA: me. So this weekend is my son's birthday LOG COUNT: There were 2 member(s) in The Bowl at 06:15 PM AmyGrantEA: and my sister's daughter's birthday. AmyGrantEA: So we're going to have a big family AmyGrantEA: get-together (about 30 of us) and eat AmyGrantEA: Mexican food and watch the movie. Question: How difficult was it for you to play a blind person? AmyGrantEA: Well, I have these contacts that obscured most of my vision and I spent AmyGrantEA: a quite a bit of time at the Tennessee AmyGrantEA: School for the Blind and worked with a AmyGrantEA: mobility instructor and they provided AmyGrantEA: two consultants on the set so that in AmyGrantEA: the event that I did something that AmyGrantEA: only a sighted person would do they AmyGrantEA: would just refilm the scene. Question: SPARKTX13: HOW CAN I BECOME A SINGER NOW IN LIFE ! GIVE ME SOME ADIVE Question: PLEASE! AND REALLY LOVE U AmyGrantEA: Well, start singing. Singing is like AmyGrantEA: a muscle. If you have the talent, it AmyGrantEA: gets better the more you use it. AmyGrantEA: Surround yourself with musicians AmyGrantEA: and writers that inspire you. And when AmyGrantEA: you've done everything you can do know AmyGrantEA: that all you can do is your best. It doesn't AmyGrantEA: necessarily mean that doors are going AmyGrantEA: to swing wide open. Even a not-so-big AmyGrantEA: outlet for making music, whether it's AmyGrantEA: in church or ina club will satisfy that AmyGrantEA: creative urge. It's not a record deal, AmyGrantEA: but at least you're doing what you love. EAMusic1: We have been getting this question from alot of you and will ask amy again! Question: MCY03970: Amy, first of all thanks for giving us as fans the Question: opportunity to chat with you! I know your Christmas album will be out Question: in October, but when can we expect a non-seasonal album? AmyGrantEA: Fall of 2000. Question: LPVargas: I really like your dance remixes. Do you plan on doing more? Question: -Lionel- AmyGrantEA: That really is up to the record company. AmyGrantEA: If they feel that some song has hit potential they try to make it accessible to a lot AmyGrantEA: of formats. AmyGrantEA: I guess it was not a good sign there were AmyGrantEA: no dance mixes on my last record! LOL AmyGrantEA: My guess is, because Interscope is MisTinyWiny: (779) anyone caN HERE ME AmyGrantEA: so aggressive in their promotion department, AmyGrantEA: that there will probably be dance mixes AmyGrantEA: on the next pop record. EAMusic1: What are your plans for the millenium? AmyGrantEA: I don't have any yet. Question: Skittles02: Who will be appearing with you in your CBS Christmas Question: Special? when will that be? AmyGrantEA: It will air in the first half of December on CBS. AmyGrantEA: I've only just started working out the AmyGrantEA: details of the special. The only guests AmyGrantEA: that I've asked so far who've said yes, AmyGrantEA: is 98 degrees. But I'd love to have AmyGrantEA: older artists which represent the Nat King Cole genre. Somebody like Tony Bennett AmyGrantEA: or Ray Charles. I'd like to have a AmyGrantEA: contemporary of me and not AmyGrantEA: just 98 degrees. Question: MichMcClur: Amy, do you have plan on cutting your hair really short? AmyGrantEA: It's so funny that you ask that because my good friend, Beverly and I, were AmyGrantEA: just talking about when we travel, I'd like to travel across Europe packing AmyGrantEA: lightly with a backpack and guitar and in the airport I'd like to cut my hair AmyGrantEA: next to my scalp. But I don't want any pictures. This is not about a look. this AmyGrantEA: is merely functional. But I don't know when that trip might happen. EAMusic1: Amy wanted to mention about the christmas special AmyGrantEA: We're only just getting the ball rolling on this and we're a little disorganized AmyGrantEA: because I only just signed the contract AmyGrantEA: to do the special. So we've not worked AmyGrantEA: out everything, including the guests yet. AmyGrantEA: It should air within the first two weeks of December. EAMusic1: lots of you wanted to ask about amy's kids AmyGrantEA: Matt turns 12 tomorrow. And his daddy, Gary Chapman and I gave him a go-kart for his AmyGrantEA: birthday. AmyGrantEA: I am so far out of my league in this AmyGrantEA: decision, but Gary's a real dare-devil. AmyGrantEA: Gary and I went through a divorce AmyGrantEA: at the end of last winter so it's been AmyGrantEA: a tough year for all of us, but we're AmyGrantEA: all doing a lot better now. AmyGrantEA: And Millie is an amazing writer. AmyGrantEA: She's 9 and a half and is constantly AmyGrantEA: starting novels...chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3 and then she quits, which is AmyGrantEA: a lot like her mother. AmyGrantEA: And Sarah will be 7 in two weeks. AmyGrantEA: She is cheerful and easy going and AmyGrantEA: the apple of Gary's and my eye. Question: Jmbacon21: If you could record with any artist out there, who would it Question: be??? AmyGrantEA: I don't really think that way. AmyGrantEA: I mean there are a lot of people who's AmyGrantEA: voices I love. Bonnie Raitt., I was a long AmyGrantEA: time James Taylor fan. I love John Hiatt. AmyGrantEA: I don't know. I guess my approach to AmyGrantEA: life and work is just wait until AmyGrantEA: opportunities present themselves in a AmyGrantEA: natural way, and then I follow that path Question: MakyManole:Amy... whether you cut your hair or not, it doesn't matter... Question: as long as you let us know WHEN and WHERE in Europe you'll be! Love, Question: Maky AmyGrantEA: That's great. The last time I was in AmyGrantEA: Germany, I had a night off and I AmyGrantEA: opened my guitar case and sang for AmyGrantEA: my supper on a street corner. AmyGrantEA: And so, I guess I'll probably do that AmyGrantEA: again, minus hair, new songs, unidentifiable. EAMusic1: Thank you AMY, is their anything you'd like to say to all of your fans? AmyGrantEA: There are no words that can express AmyGrantEA: what a rich experience it has been AmyGrantEA: to make music for the last 21 years. AmyGrantEA: How can I describe this? It's like I meet people and they already have their arms AmyGrantEA: open ready to embrace, ready to share AmyGrantEA: their own story with me. AmyGrantEA: This whole music thing has led to a lot AmyGrantEA: of sweet friendships. Thanks for AmyGrantEA: letting my songs be a part of your life. EAMusic1: Thank you AMY!! she will be in the CBS movie "Music from the Heart" on Sun nt AmyGrantEA: Thank you! Bye everybody! Chat Transcript Copyright AOL @1999 |
