When Joan Osborne became an overnight sensation with her ubiquitous hit “One of Us” in 1995, no one was less prepared than her. “On the one hand I was really excited to get that kind of recognition,” she says on this episode of Soul Sisters, while admitting that “it was also really difficult just personally” with strangers following her down the street after recognizing her from the song’s music video that played in heavy MTV rotation.

Here she looks back at a life that began in small-town Kentucky, where she harbored the unexpected dream of becoming a Catholic priest, before running off to New York to study documentary filmmaking (“it was like landing on another planet”) and then accepting a dare that would completely turn her life upside down.