COCKBURN: I don\u2019t spend much time thinking about trying to get a message across. I feel like, I feel a compulsion to write about what I experience and what I think I see and feel and I have a compulsion of some kind to share that with people. I guess it\u2019s the conceit of every artist that, you know, you think that what you have to say is worth putting out there, that people are gonna be interested,<\/p>\n
FAW : And a compulsion too, he makes clear, to being receptive to a mystery he does not fully understand.<\/p>\n
COCKBURN: I don\u2019t see how you can have a relationship with God that doesn\u2019t involve a state of receptivity. And a receptivity to lots of stuff because God does show up in all kinds of odd ways. That there\u2019s all kinds of different ways that that relationship can be made manifest and it requires a state of receptivity to know that that\u2019s what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n
FAW: He has a different perspective now, he says, than in that earlier “Christian songwriter” phase. But what is not different for Bruce Cockburn is his status as a seeker.<\/p>\n