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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.