AMY GRANT'S success as a
Christian pop musician in the
secular marketplace has been
remarkable.

The Grammy Award winner
appears this Sunday, for a 7:30 p.m.
_ show at the Coliseum. Tickets are

available at Ticketmaster outlets,
Celebration and House of James
bookstores. She has moved more
than 10 million albunts. The latest,
House Of Love, is another biggie for
her.
Here's some Amy insight as post-
ed on the Internet from Tuebingen
. Germany, The Amy Grant archive is
available on the World Wide Web at
+ http://www.ipc.uni-tucbingen.de/art
Amy on reading: “I was (and
still am) a. voracious reader all

through school. 1 have forgotten
most of the books I read, but some
of my favorites that do stand out are:
E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web and
Stuart’ Liule, the Laura Ingalls
Wilder series, Naney Drew. and
Ramona The — Pest series,
Huckleberry Finn and Where The
Red Fern Grows.

“tS always enjoyed being read to
when | was quite young. There was
one person in particular that Twas
especially fond off a cousin, but
actually more like an aunt as she
was my mother’s age. She was an
English teacher who never married.
She treated my sisters and [as if we
were her own children.

“The most vivid memory | have
of our reading together was when
she lived with our family, ft almost
became a ritual for us, After waking
up from a nightmare in the middle of
the night, | would creep down to her
room “and she would pall out this
great big book of poctry (my

: favorite was The Highwayman) and

read to me until | feli asleep, Then.
I'd-wet her bed and we'd have to

“relocate, What a wonderful woman!
She, more than any other individual .

instilled in me a love.of words and
books. That's what inspired me: to

‘major i in English Lit whee I wentto

college.” .
Amy on writing: “I never actual-
ly wrote any stories. When | was 15,

‘TL began writing unrequited love

songs, The first time I wrote a song
about my faith in Christ was for a
very specific purpose. J-attended a

the mest) boring half
“chapel” in the world.

“LT wanted so much for all the
girls there to know about the reality
of God and who he really was and |
felt the chapel services there did him
such un injustice. So. I wrote songs
to sing for them never imagining
that it would become my life's work.
You never know what those teen-
aged notes and doodles might turn
into.”

Amy on drug and alcohol abuse:

“L feel that there are three basic

hour of

reasons someone turns to drugs:
they are bored: they are mad at
someone else and use it as retalia-
lion; they haven't figured out who
they are and hide behind the sub-
stance out of insecurity.

“Life is a process of becoming
who you are. The longer 1 live, the
more I realize just how short it is.
Anytime you take a detour from that
process, you are robbing yourself of
that “becoming” time.

“Putting these chemical sub-
stances into your body is destructive

to every area of your life -— physi-
cal, emotional, intellectual and spir-~
itual, The younger and less mature

" your body is. the more likely you are

to become addicted after only one or
two exposures to the drug (depend-
ing upon the strength and addictive-
ness of the particular substance).
“But even worse than its effect
on your body is the effect on your
“heart.” It introduces a deep-seated

patiern of lies and deceit. You might >=.

think it doesn’t affect anything else,
but it affects everything.”

Po Mn

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