Heyborne's life was getting jam-packed. "I played with the band, was going to school full time and was working at a full-time job." One more thing was about to further complicate his life. "I was invited to be in a show at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, and I fell in love with acting. I had done it in high school, but I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed it."

Eventually, something had to give, and that something was music.

But now, although he's no less busy, things have changed. He's through with school. He's married and has children. He's busy auditioning and acting.

But he's also found time for music again.

That journey back to his roots began with the "R.M." movie. "They found out I was a musician and asked me to cover a hymn for the soundtrack. Then they asked me to cover a song for their upcoming Christmas album." Then came "Sons of Provo," and Heyborne realized he needed a place for music in his life.

Some of the songs on "Inside" are new, written for the CD. Some are older songs, "that I always wanted to have recorded," so the CD has both a retrospective and a current angle that add up to who he is musically. "Some of them are songs I wrote when I was wooing my wife."

The song "Night Begins" was written in high school, Heyborne said. "I wrote it as a poem first, and it got published in the literary magazine. I thought that was so cool."

"This," talks about the importance of being needed, a feeling he explored after returning from his mission.

"Waiting Here," "Inside" and "Perfect Together" are among the new songs.

The final cut, "Fields to Whisper," is another song he wrote for his wife. "I needed to put that one on for her, so I can woo her some more."

While he's not planning on giving up acting anytime soon, Heyborne said he's already working on another CD.

Music fascinates him. Strip it down to its basics, and it has a simplistic purity. "You get to one note, and you can't break it down. It will always exist." And yet, you can't ever learn all there is to know. "The more you understand, the more it adds to your music; the more beautiful you can make it."

Even more than acting, music "is a creative process — and there's nothing better than that."

Even more than acting, it means putting yourself out there. "I go into auditions, and I get rejections and people tell me what I'm doing wrong. But there's still the feeling that part of that is the character.

"It's worse when someone says they don't like a song. The song is all you. It's how you feel, how you see the world." Yet, he said, the more you put those feelings in, the better the song will be.

Heyborne has several acting projects in the works. He'll be working on a film with fellow LDS actor Corbin Allred this summer. And in the fall he hopes to produce a film based on a short story by LDS writer Orson Scott Card.