Christian Music Today has a really nice interview with Joy Williams that you might find interesting. When she was just 17, Joy Williams launched onto the CCM pop scene with a bang, and then kind of faded away. She’s spent the last several years writing for film, TV and other artists. In this interview she talks with reporter Andrea Dawn Goforth about leaving the Christian market circuit and finding her own voice.Williams says, “I understand that the mantra for a lot of Christian music is that it’s ‘safe for the whole family,’ but I don’t believe that faith is always meant to be safe.” She adds later, “At 17, I was so excited about changing the world, telling people about the Lord, and rubbing shoulders with people and hearing their stories. The more I heard stories of some of the things that people were going through, it made me realize that faith was not some sort of religious high. It’s a lot less performance-based than I thought it was.”The irony, of course, is that with that spiritual maturity and an honest exploration of faith and art comes the typical Christian bubble reponse. Williams says people her if she’s still saved and where Christ is in her music. Sigh.Joy’s new EP, One of Those Days, is available only at her shows or at Sensibility Music, a music company created by Joy and her husband, Nate. She’s also in a new band, The Civil Wars (video above). You can learn more about what Joy’s up to at her MySpace page.