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.

Springfield explains that his decision to make a Christmas album was not driven primarily by seasonal nostalgia or commercial tradition, but by a specific narrative and emotional premise: the experience of deployed U.S. soldiers during the Iraq War. By centering the project on “Christmas with You,” he frames the record as an attempt to translate wartime separation into a holiday idiom—using familiar Christmas imagery to highlight absence, longing, and the desire for home. The quote also signals an artistic choice about perspective: rather than singing as himself, he adopts (or is inspired by) the soldiers’ point of view, aiming to lend the album a thematic unity and a contemporary, socially grounded resonance.