#620 - Amy Grant on Her Tragic Bike Crash, Early Fame, Taylor Swift Parallels & Finding Success by Accident
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Christian music icon and crossover star Amy Grant sits down with Bobby to talk about the tragic bike crash that changed her life and the long road back that followed. She also looks back on getting a record deal at just 15 years old, becoming famous almost by accident, and what it was like trying to navigate success while still being so young. Amy shares why she sees some parallels between her own career and Taylor Swift, reflects on the unexpected path her life took, and tells the story of getting Minnie Pearl’s blessing to name her daughter after her. It’s a conversation about resilience, early success, perspective, and the moments that shaped one of music’s most enduring careers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.8 | I remember when people were first dog in Taylor Swift, |
| 0:13.8 | well, she's pitchy. |
| 0:14.8 | She says she's at what I knew because I had been on that same thing. |
| 0:18.0 | I was like, wait until she hits 35, She will be at the top of her game. |
| 0:24.9 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Bobbycast. I am joined by the legendary Amy Grant, six-time |
| 0:32.0 | Grammy winner. One of the most influential voices in Christian music and pop music, you probably know, |
| 0:38.8 | baby, baby, after more than a decade away from releasing original music, she is back. |
| 0:44.5 | She's a deeply personal new album called The Me That Remains, which we're going to talk about here. |
| 0:50.2 | And we do talk about new music. |
| 0:51.6 | We do talk about life in Nashville, motherhood. We do talk |
| 0:55.4 | about what keeps her going nearly 50 years into her incredible career. And we do talk about |
| 1:01.3 | her injury, her bicycle accident that turned into a brain injury. So I'm a big fan of this person, |
| 1:08.0 | also of the artist. Here's my conversation with Amy Grant. |
| 1:12.2 | Amy, good to see you. How you been? I've been good. I've been good. Yeah? Yeah. |
| 1:18.1 | What does that mean that you've been good? Like what is good for you? Good for me means to me |
| 1:24.5 | settled on the inside. You know, everything kind of comes from there, I guess. |
| 1:31.5 | Sometimes in life feel really frantic, and this doesn't. I'm busy, but I don't feel frantic. |
| 1:38.4 | I think I live frantic. That's fair. I mean, I'm, you know, I'm a decade and a half older than you are. I don't think it's an age thing, though, for me. Yeah, I just got my test results back today from a lot of blood work, though, so I'm pretty pumped about that. Okay. Good? You good? Yeah, yeah. As I get older, I start to get a little more nervous each time. Right. |
| 2:02.0 | I've had issues. |
| 2:07.3 | I've had three eschemic strokes in my brain. |
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