Chris Stapleton had just finished recording his new album “Starting Over,” set to be released in November, when the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Asked by “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason about whether he had any doubts releasing new music amid the global health crisis, the notoriously private singer said “of course” he did.

“I think everybody has doubts about everything they’re doing in every moment right now,” he said.

The 42-year-old artist has been riding out the pandemic at his home, an hour outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and five children. He admitted the cloistered way of life is not always easy.

“There’s good days and bad days,” he said. “If anybody tells you that they haven’t reached a near breaking point mentally in these times, I think they’re probably lying to you.”

Stapleton said he had asked his wife for a mountain bike for his birthday in April, and now spends time riding it through the woods.

“It’s helped tremendously, in a centering kinda way,” he said.

Starting out as a Nashville-based songwriter before becoming a solo star, Stapleton mined his deep catalog of work for his latest album. He recorded most of it at RCA Studio A in Nashville, where he made his earlier solo albums — including “Traveller,” his breakthrough debut and the best-selling country album of the last decade.

“Recording to me is, you’re trying to capture magic, you know, as much as you can… the magic of a moment,” he said.

Stapleton said it was his wife, Morgane, who lets him know when a song is just right.

“And she’s not wrong,” he said. “Me and Dave Cobb may be listed as producers on the record, but my wife is generally the producer of my life… I used to say she has excellent taste in everything but men.”

Like many artists, Stapleton wishes he could take his album on the road and play in front of crowds.