Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

I like to write songs that people can identify with and sing along to.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.