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.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.