Steven Curtis Chapman

If I can just get my calendar figured out.

And then go to the counselor who says, and we sit down and say, we just need to get figured out how to do the calendar.

And there were even moments where, you know, okay, if I need to quit doing this, because people could look from the outside to your point and say, okay,

yeah, it must be nice, you know, but then we could flip that around very easily and go, yeah, it must be nice to not have the expectations and the pressures.

And, you know, people say, what's it like to win a Grammy award?

You know, and I'll say, man, it's awesome for about 15 minutes.

And that's when all the high fives are happening.

But you walk out of that, you know, out of the press room and you walk into the, you know, room with your manager and your

you know, booking agent and your record label.

And everybody's like, man, the next one, boy, well, think of what we can build on with this.

And the pressure hits.

Yeah.

And it's just, it's the pressure.

So, you know, all of that is amazing and incredible as it is, is a whole lot of then pressure, expectation.

How do you manage it?

How do you, you know, love family and

raise your kids and care for your wife.

And you look and you see the toll it's taken on her.

And then I'm sitting with my manager and record label in tears going, guys, I think I might have to pull the plug on this because I'm not going to lose my marriage and my family over this.

And so we pray through it and