Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.