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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.

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 have seen my mugshot.