BreatheCast recently interviewed Colton Dixon on a wide-range of topics. Here are a few highlights:
How did it feel to see Angie Miller perform your song, "Never Gone" on American Idol?
"First of all, she did a phenomenal job. I still can't believe that
it all happened so fast, it really just felt like I was on the stage
yesterday and now a new season already and someone is singing one of my
songs, it's just crazy, I can't even wrap my head around it. It's cool
to see what God is doing with this record and the different avenues He
has been plugging it in. So stoked for Angie, she has been doing so
well and yea, like I said, she absolutely killed it. Excited to see
what she will be doing in the future."
Do you keep in touch with anyone from American Idol?
"Yea, we all keep in touch pretty well actually. If someone has
something going on, they will group text us and we will catch up every
once in a while. I'd say the person that I was closest to was probably
Phillip just because we have similar interests. He was a believer as
well so we were able to connect on that level. We were trying to do the
same things just with different genres of music. He was just a great,
humble guy and we try to keep in contact as best as we can with our busy
schedules. Phillip actually just announced a tour with John Mayer, so
I'm a little jealous right now. I'm gonna be one of those guys begging
for backstage passes (laughs). They are all doing really, really
great. It's cool to see the different avenues that music is taking
them."
If you could collaborate with one Christian artist and one secular artist, who would you choose?
"That is so hard. Man, I would love to collaborate with Jon
Foreman of Switchfoot. I actually just met him not too long ago, he's such a rad
dude. He promised me a surfing lesson so I'm looking forward to that. On the secular side (pause), I think doing something with
Jared Leto from 30 Seconds to Mars would be amazing. Doing something
with Coldplay would be amazing too. Man, so many good artists. I would
say between those two artists."
