If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.