We got about halfway through it, or a little way more, and my son had football practice. So we just started tossing around lines like “dying to live” and Craig spit out “live like you were dying” and I was like, “Dude, I love that! Let’s write that!” And we were off to the races. Then Craig had an uncle who had been fighting leukemia and had that attitude that he was going to fight it. But for a few days he thought that his days were numbered, so-to-speak.Īnd then that reminded Craig of another story that he had heard - I think it was on NPR - about a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer and she said her thing was she wanted to go mountain climbing in the Rockies and another guy was like, he’d always thought one day he’d like to skydive and so we had skydiving and rocky mountain climbing. It turned out that everything was fine - some kind of a lab mix-up or whatever. I happened to be re-telling Craig a story that I heard just the day before about a friend of ours that had a health scare. The day Craig and I wrote “Live Like You Were Dying,” it wasn’t like I came in with that title or he had it. How did you and Craig Wiseman come up with the idea for “Live Like You Were Dying”? So it was the coolest moment to find out that way standing in the middle of these 300-foot-tall, 1,000-year-old redwood trees - that was a very neat way to find out. But for some reason I did, and it was Pat Alger telling me that I’d been elected to the Hall of Fame. I’m kind of an amateur photographer and I happened to be walking by myself and my phone rang. I saw it was a Nashville number. I was out in California in the Armstrong Redwoods State Park. How did you learn you were chosen this year for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame?
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