God Quote by T-Bone Burnett

Burnett’s line has the dry humility of someone who’s spent a lifetime around big, loud certainties and learned to distrust them. “Met God” sounds like a conversion story, but he immediately undercuts any one-and-done revelation with a phrase that belongs to photography and perspective: “from a different point of view.” God isn’t a fixed monument in this sentence; the camera keeps moving, and so does the person behind it.

The intent is quietly radical: he’s claiming spiritual contact while refusing spiritual bragging rights. The subtext is that faith, for him, is not a credential but an evolving relationship shaped by seasons of need, failure, work, and maybe sobriety - the kinds of life chapters musicians and producers often narrate without naming. “At different times” also signals that the self doing the meeting is never the same self twice. The divine changes because the observer changes; that’s less relativism than an admission of human limitation.

Context matters here because Burnett’s world is American music, where gospel, blues, and country treat God as both shelter and argument. Those traditions are full of testimony, but also full of doubt, bargaining, and irony. His phrasing borrows the testimony structure (I met God) while stripping out the easy moral: no single angle gets the whole picture. It’s a line that makes room for believers, skeptics, and the exhausted middle - people who don’t want religion as a team sport, but still can’t quite stop looking up.