asking my Dad , “ What does it mean ‘ cattle on a thousand hills ?’” Those kind of memories … where you ' re like , “ How did they know what I gleaned from that as a child ?” But I just knew God was really cool . And Heaven was going to be great because He had all the cows . ( laughing ) So the Gaither ' s … just their music has been a part of my life the whole time I ' ve been alive . And then to be able to be making music , I didn ' t really see myself doing this when I growing up . I wasn ' t like , “ I want to make music one day and I want to do what the Gaither ' s do ”.
But then when I find myself on a stage next to them doing a Q & A . I don ' t have to , nor do I want to talk , I just want to listen to them ! They ' re the wisest , kindest people that I ' ve been around in music . I just loved it . There ' s such wisdom to what they say , every time I ' ve heard them talk out loud . It ' s just like either hilarious , or just like wisdom from the mountaintop .
Crowder , Johnnyswim , Tori Kelly - Because He Lives ( Easter At Passion City Church )
I ' ll never forget when the answer to some question that was a Q & A thing I was a part of , and Bill ' s answer to it was , ” Well , there ' s a scene from the Music Man musical …” Bill would talk about harmony and his point was that it ' s really difficult to argue when you ' re trying to harmonize . And he was using it as an example of conflict in the church and outside of the church , that there ' s something beautiful about music and making it as a collective . And I think that hearing them talk about that and watching how they brought so many people together for so many years with just simple songs … is absolutely inspiring .
[ WM ] I love that . When does the Milk & Honey Tour kickoff and how much are you chomping on the bit to get back out there ?
[ Crowder ] Man , I ' m dying for it . It will go out in the Fall . That ' s still a little bit of a ways off for me and it feels like the release is still a little way off too . I ' m ready for all of it to have happened already . But yeah , we ' ll wait for the Fall . Hopefully by then , things will be rocking back to normal . And it ' s a pretty extensive tour . It looks really great to see something on the calendar , it looks like we ' re doing stuff again . That ' s fantastic . I like seeing that .
[ WM ] Right on . Hey , in the bio for Milk & Honey , you make an interesting statement . You say , “ There ' s only one definitive line and that ' s the one line between death and life .