Amy Grant on difficult brain injury recovery that led to first new album in 13 years

Amy Grant shares how she overcame the trauma of her bike accident to write her first album of new music in 13 years.

Amy Grant was in recovery mode.

After two surgeries following her July 2022 bike accident that caused traumatic brain injury, she was cleaning out spaces and closets in her Franklin, Tennessee home when one of her daughters asked, “What is your creative space in the house?”

Grant realized, “I’ve never had a room where I could close the door in this house.”

So, she tells USA TODAY, she went upstairs and “cleaned and cleaned and cleaned” and when she was finished, instinct kicked in.

“I picked up a pen and wrote a poem, ‘The Me that Remains.’ I was still recovering. I wasn’t thinking about writing and my short-term memory was a struggle at the time. It was so hard to write music because I couldn’t remember a lyric I’d written five minutes earlier.”