Brandi Carlile: And if you hadn't said that — and we had just kept on going along like that — we may have made a whole album like that. But you are the one that stopped that from happening.

Mission accomplished. The album, which came out April 4, debuted at No. 1 on the U.K. Official Albums chart, giving Carlile her first No. 1 on the tally and her first to reach the chart’s top 40.

Brandi Carlile: Oh yeah, about myself — just like Elton had doubts about himself. But the album was a leap of faith — of our friendship and each other's musicality and whether or not those ...

Brandi Carlile: And if you hadn't said that — and we had just kept on going along like that — we may have made a whole album like that. But you are the one that stopped that from happening. A Martínez ...

I was recently writing for a new album – a Brandi Carlile album — and missing Elton so much… but remembering that the Elton music I witnessed in the studio live is a well that I'm always going to be ...