Did you watch televangelists like Eli while growing up in Missouri?

Not really. When I was a kid we’d go to tent revivals. I was raised Southern Baptist, and it was powerful, emotional stuff. People would weep. Get out in an aisle and just dying to confess and convert or save themselves again. It’s not rational. I think my guy is trying to get away from that. His father apparently was a Pentecostal, and I think he likes the idea of suits from Barneys and the jets and maybe trying to clean up. Just trying to be what he would think would be a little classier to pinkie rings and gold cuff links.

He is the classy one, isn’t he?

If that’s true, the whole thing is in the [expletive] house.

It took me a while to recognize Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland as Aimee-Leigh.

Yeah, I thought she was an actress — and she might have been at one time — and I didn’t know she was in that band until my daughter told me. And I felt really stupid because I was asking her what she did. Oh well. Can’t put that toothpaste back in the tube. She was great to work with. She’s just a great person.

Will we get to hear you sing alongside her?

No. I decided I didn’t have any musical talent the day I quit drinking. I thought I was pretty well represented by the muse, and I was just fooling myself.

You’ll soon be shooting Season 2 of “The Conners,” which was renewed for even more episodes than the first.

Yeah, they surprised us, which means I’ll be getting out of there about the time to start the other one, “The Righteous Gemstones,” if we get picked up.